Ki-Bok Min

Professor, Department of Energy Resources Engineering; Vice President for Asia, ISRM

Ki-Bok Min is Professor of Geomechanics in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU). He received his BSc and MSc from SNU and his PhD in Engineering Geology from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His research focuses on anisotropic rock mechanics and coupled processes in fractured rock, with applications to the geological disposal of nuclear waste and enhanced geothermal systems (EGS). He has served as a guest scientist at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in 2025 and at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2022. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, Vice President for Asia of the International Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (ISRM) for 2023–2027, and Chair of the Organizing Committee for the 16th ISRM Congress, to be held in Seoul in 2027.