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| Yoon Young-bin | |
|---|---|
| 윤영빈 | |
 Yoon in 2024 | |
| 1st Chief of the Korea AeroSpace Administration | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 27 May 2024 | |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Independent |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan (Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering) |
Yoon Young-bin (Korean: 윤영빈) is the First chief of the Korea AeroSpace Administration.
Career
Yoon has been a professor at the Department of Aeronautics and Space Sciences at Seoul National University since 1996. He has conducted research on liquid rockets and gas turbine engines for over 40 years, and participated in the development of Naro-1 and Nuri, and the first phase of the Korean Lunar Exploration Program .
He also served as the director of the SNU Aerospace New Technology Research Institute and the director of the Next Generation Space Propulsion Research Center. Sung Tae-yoon, the chief of staff for policy at the president, introduced him as "Korea's leading researcher in the field of space propulsion."
- 1994: Researcher, University of California Davis Campus
- 1996: Full-time lecturer, Department of Aerospace Engineering, SNU
- 1998: Assistant professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, SNU
- 2002: Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SNU
- 2024: First Director, KASA
References
- "초대 우주청장에 윤영빈…임무본부장 NASA 출신 존 리". Yonhap News. 24 April 2024.
- "[신년사] 윤영빈 우주청장 "민간 중심 우주항공 경제 실현"". Chosun Biz. 1 January 2025.