Scientist and Engineer of the Month, Ministry of Science and Technology of Korea (2006) Yeom Han-woong (born 5 December 1966) is a South Korean physicist.

A tenured professor at POSTECH, he has led several research centers for the university and from 2013 in collaboration with the Institute for Basic Science.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has served as vice chairman of the Korean government's first science and technology advisory group[1] for three consecutive terms.

During his time at Yonsei, he was part of a research team that developed a semiconductor nanometer wire with a thickness of 1 to 3 atoms.

[4][5] Afterwards he moved to the Department of Physics, POSTECH (2010–present), where he served as director of Center for Atomic Wires and Layers (2003–2012), director of Center for Low Dimensional Electronic Symmetries (2012–2013), and founding director of Center for Artificial Low Dimensional Electronic Systems, Institute for Basic Science (2013–present).