Moon Soo-bok, head of the National Research Foundation of Korea's National Strategy Research Division. [National Research Foundation of Korea]
Moon Soo-bok, head of the National Research Foundation of Korea's National Strategy Research Division. [National Research Foundation of Korea]

The National Research Foundation of Korea announced Tuesday it has appointed Moon Soo-bok, a professor in the School of Computing at KAIST, as head of its National Strategy Research Division.

In the two-year role, Moon will oversee and coordinate government-entrusted affairs under the division, including management and evaluation of academic and research and development support projects, project planning and proposals for mid- to long-term development, policy establishment and advisory work, budget allocation and execution, promotion of research outcomes, assessment of research demand by field, technology forecasting, and investigation and analysis of research trends.


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