Ham Don-hee, professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at Harvard University, will teach at Seoul National University.

The personnel committee of Seoul National University’s College of Engineering officially announced its decision to recruit the Harvard professor on Thursday. Once the decision is approved at the university level, Ham will begin teaching at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in March.

School officials said that Ham would retain his post at Harvard, and carry out his research and lectures in both countries.

Seoul National University had made consistent efforts to recruit the esteemed professor as a part of its program to strengthen its research capacity by inviting esteemed scholars from around the globe.

Ham, who hails from Busan, earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Seoul National University in 1996, where he graduated summa cum laude. Since then, he has gone to study in the U.S. and received numerous honors such as the IBM Doctoral Fellowship and Harvard Hoopes prize, a Harvard fund granted to outstanding undergraduates.

By Lee Sang-ju (sjlee370@heraldcorp.com)