Hong Gil Nam (Korean: 남홍길; born 1957) is a South Korean biologist teaching in the Department of New Biology of Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology and leading research as director of the Center for Plant Aging Research.

His research interests include comparative aging in diverse kingdoms, including plant and animals, to reveal aging mechanisms among species, cross-kingdom interaction between plants and animals, and biochemistry at nano and micro levels.

He is the founder and former director of the Biological Research Information Center, a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, and has served on the editorial board in Molecular Plant[2] since 2013.

From 1986 to 1988, he worked as a research fellow in the Department of Genetics of Harvard Medical School with Howard M. Goodman.

[4][5][6] Outside of his work at POSTECH, he founded and directed the Biological Research Information Center [ko] (BRIC)[7][8][9] from 1996 to 2005.