Our postdoc research scientist Dr. Jinhyun Choo will join the University of Hong Kong as an assistant professor in Spring 2018

It is my great pleasure to announce that our postdoc research scientist, Dr. Jinhyun Choo has accepted a tenure-track position as assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong. Jinhyun joined our research group as a postdoctoral research scientist in Fall 2016 after finishing his PhD under the tutelage of Professor Ronaldo Borja at Stanford University. During his productive tenure at Columbia, we have submitted three journal articles with Jinhyun, of which one is accepted. He is the first author of the other two works on modeling brittle-ductile transition and on chemoporomechanics of brittle porous materials. Prior to Stanford and Columbia, he obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University, and worked at an engineering firm and a government funded research institute in Korea. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards including a Fulbright Scholarship and a Charles H. Leavell Fellowship for research on sustainable built environment. For more information, please visit his website: http://jinhyunchoo.com/
 
His work with us are listed below.

• W.C. Sun, Z. Cai, J. Choo, Mixed Arlequin method for multiscale poromechanics problems, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, ​doi:10.1002/nme.5476, 2017. [PDF]
• J. Choo, W.C. Sun, Coupled phase-field and plasticity modeling of geological materials: From brittle fracture to ductile flow, under review.
• J. Choo, W.C. Sun, ​Cracking and damage from crystallization in pores: Coupled chemo-poro-mechanics and phase-field modeling, under review. ​

Congratulations Jinhyun for this wonderful and well-deserved accomplishment! I am very proud to have the privilege to be your colleague and friend! 

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