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
<h4>Research projects</h4>
<p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>
