Dr. Seunghwan Lee

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Experience

Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, since Sep 2023

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, Jan 2009 – July 2020

Senior Researcher, Department of Materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Zurich, Switzerland, Jul 2003 – Dec 2008

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Zurich, Switzerland, Aug 2000 – Jun 2003

 

Education

PhD, Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA, Aug 1995 – May 2000

MSc, Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Mar 1992 – Feb 1994

BSc, Department of Chemistry Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Mar 1987 – Feb 1991

Research interests

Aqueous Lubrication

Mucins and Mucus

Surface Functionalization and Biotribology of Biomedical Implants

Biofouling

Oral and Food Tribology

Tribology of Soft Tissues and Their Models

Polymer Brush Tribology

Nanomechanics and Nanotribology

 

A list of relevant publications can be found in:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=lGZT8Y4AAAAJ

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Qualifications

• PhD in Chemistry