2025 Bo Lindell Medal Recipient: Professor Yeon Soo Yeom

2025-04-14

ICRP is pleased to announce that the 2025 recipient of the Bo Lindell Medal for the Promotion of Radiological Protection is Prof. Yeon Soo Yeom from Yonsei University – Mirae Campus, in the Republic of Korea.

“I am deeply honored and humbled to receive this award. I would like to thank the ICRP Main Commission members, not only recognising my past achievements but also believing in my potential for future contributions to radiological protection. This honour is impossible without many supports from my family and colleagues, especially my doctoral advisor, Prof. Chan Hyeong Kim at Hanyang University. Considering that ICRP is currently in the review and revision of the System of Radiological Protection, I hope to have many opportunities to contribute to this important process, particularly revising the dose coefficients using the new ICRP mesh-type reference computational phantoms (MRCPs)”.    

Prof. Yeom received his Ph.D. degree in 2017 from Department of Nuclear Engineering at Hanyang University – Seoul Campus. As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked at Hanyang University for about one year and then joined the Radiation Epidemiology Branch (REB) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI)/National Institutes of Health (NIH) (United States) in 2018. After completing his research career in the United States, Prof. Yeom moved back to Korea, joining the Department of Radiological Science at Yonsei University as a tenure-track faculty member in 2021. Prof. Yeom has served as Chair of the department since 2024.          

For the past 15 years, Prof. Yeom has significantly contributed to advancing radiation dosimetry technology, especially for radiological protection. He has been a member of ICRP Committee 2 since July 2023. His doctoral thesis under the supervision of Prof. Chan Hyeong Kim, a member of ICRP Committee 2 and Chair of ICRP Task Group 103, was the development of the adult ICRP mesh-type reference computational phantoms (MRCPs) to overcome the limitations of the conventional voxel/voxelized phantoms. The adult MRCPs were finally released in ICRP Publication 145, prepared by ICRP Task Group 103. Prof. Yeom also has served as a member of ICRP Task Group 103, in which he made a major contribution to ICRP Publication 145, and has been actively involved in the development of the pediatric MRCPs released in ICRP Publication 156, as well as the pregnant-female MRCPs. Prof. Yeom has been a member of three other active ICRP Task Groups (96, 113, and 128) and is also one of the co-authors of ICRP Publications 143 and 144. Prof. Yeom is also a member of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA) Young Generation Network (YGN) Leadership Committee.  

In addition to his contributions at the international level, Prof. Yeom has been also actively involved in those at the domestic level as well. For example, currently serving as Chair of the Young Scientists Group (YSG) Committee of the Korean Association for Radiation Protection (KARP), and Chair of the Standardization Committee of the Korean Society of Medical Physics (KSMP). Moreover, Prof. Yeom has been very productive and recognised in his research mainly on computational dosimetry for radiation protection and risk assessment, publishing 86 peer-reviewed journal papers, delivering more than 30 invited lectures at both domestic and international events, and receiving various honours and awards including Intramural Research Award (NIH/NCI, 2019), Charles Land Best Oral Presentation Award (Conference on Radiation and Health & Radiation Research Society, 2018), and Future Generation of Radiation Protection Award (KARP, 2024).

ICRP, and its Main Commission, Scientific Secretariat, Committees, and Task Groups, congratulate Prof. Yeon Soo Yeom on this well-deserved honour, and look forward to his continued contributions and efforts to the field of radiological protection. He will receive the Bo Lindell Medal before delivering a keynote address at ICRP 2025 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 7-9 October 2025.