January 2024
Thomas and Isabela joined the lab for undergraduate research. Victoria will also continue her work on 2D materials.
November 2023
Malli joined the group as a postdoc. Welcome!
August 2023
Yancheng successfully defended in his PhD final exam. He will move to Caltech as a postdoc. Congrats!
August 2023
Seongmin from UNIST and Yoo Hyun from Purdue joined our group. Welcome!
July 2023
Prof. Choi gave a virtual presentation for the Build-a-Cell seminar series.
June 2023
Prof. Choi received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He was invited to the Bellevue Palace in Berlin for the AvH reception hosted by the German President, Dr. Steinmeier.
June 2023
Jaehoon started his postdoc position at Princeton University. Ruixin embarked a new chapter in his career at CGG as a research scientist.
April 2023
Both Ruxin and Jaehoon defended their work at final defense. Congratulations Drs. Li and Ji!
April 2023
Yancheng gave an invited talk at the FNANO conference. Anirudh also presented his work as well.
March 2023
Ruxin and Jaehoon presented their papers at the ACS Spring meeting in Indianapolis.
January 2023
Audrey and Victoria joined the lab for undergraduate research. Welcome.
January 2023
Jason received a H. William Bottomley Research Scholarship. Congratulations. He will return to the lab for research in the spring semester
December 2022
Jaehoon gave presentations at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston.
December 2022
Dr. Choi has been selected for a prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation in Germany.
Fall 2022
Dr. Choi gave a talk at TU Munich (Germany), University of Oxford (UK), University of Stuttgart (Germany), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), and EPFL (Switzerland). He also visited Universität der Bundeswehr München.
September 2022
Dr. Choi is taking a sabbatical at the Technical University of Munich in Germany.
September 2022
Alex joined the group from UIUC. Welcome Alex!
August 2022
Sewon joined the group from Yonsei University. Congrats for recieving the Ross Fellowship. Welcome!!
April 2022
Ruixin presented his work at the FNANO conference.
April 2022
Yancheng passed the preliminary exam with flying color.
March 2022
Ruixin, Jaehoon, and Yancheng presented their papers at the APS March Meeting in Chicago.
March 2022
Yancheng won the Estus H. And Vashti L. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching. He was also selected for a Summer Research Grant.
January 2022
Jaehoon was selected for a Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship.
November 2021
Jaehoon passed his preliminary exam with flying color.
August 2021
Anirudh joined the group from IIT Tirupati. Welcome Anirudh.
July 2021
Jaehoon’s interlayer exciton paper published online in ACS Applied Electronic Materials.
May 2021
Our programmable synthetic cell paper is published in ACS Synthetic Biology.
May 2021
Duncan successfully defended his thesis. He will start a new phase in his career at Cuberg.
April 2021
Ruixin passed his preliminary exam.
March 2021
Ruixin’s Hoberman flight ring paper is published in Small. His MD simulation work is also published in Applied Sciences.
March 2021
Jaehoon was selected for the Estus H. And Vashti L. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching.
February 2021
Ruixin’s 2D DNA auxetics paper now published in Angewandte Chemie.
January 2021
Yancheng won the prestigious Warren and Judy Stevenson Graduate Scholarship.
January 2021
Ruixin won the prestigious Ben M. Hillberry Graduate Scholarship.
January 2021
Yancheng’s paper on mechanistic studies on DNA walkers is published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Also see the related news on his earlier work.