Jay Park wins the TA of the Year Award
Jay Park in the group has been selected as a recipient of the Outstanding Graduate TA of the Year Award this year. Jay has been TAing ChemE3720, Introduction to Process Dynamics and Control, this semester. This TA of the Year Award is chosen by the undergraduates and faculty in the department.
Qin Qi, undergraduate researcher in the group, has been selected as the recipient of the Outstanding Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Research Award this year. This award recognizes a demonstrated record of ability, indication of leadership and professional promise.
Both will receive the awards at the Class of 2013 Senior Dinner on May 2.
Two 1st Year PhD Students Join the Group
Jangwoo (Joshua) Kim and Yevgen (Zhenia) Zhmayev joined the group. Joshua from Yonsei University in Korea will work on controlling the confined assembly of ceramic/block copolymer composites for energy applications. Zhenia Zhmayev who is a younger brother of a former group member, Eddie Zhmayev (PhD '08) at Corning, will develop the water-based, needleless centrifugal spinning process for nanofibers with hierarchical structures.
New Postdoc, Dr. Jun Yin Joins the Group
Dr. Jun Yin who received his PhD from the Chemistry Department at SUNY, Binghamton joined the group as a postdoc. His thesis work was on the synthesis and characterization of nanostructured materials for applications in advanced energy storage and conversion such as fuel cells and metal-air batteries and in flexible chemical sensors, and he will be working on the development of nanostructured electrolytes and electrodes for Li-air batteries.
Postdoctoral Opening
The Joo research group is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers to work on the development of ceramic-polymer hybrids and nanostructured carbon.
These experimenter positions will be to develop processes for ceramic-polymer hybrids and nanostructured carbon, respectively. The projects are funded by a leading electronic materials company for two years.
Highly motivated candidates with strong backgrounds on ceramic and nanostructured carbon will be considered. Applicants are expected to have experience or familiarity with processing ceramic-polymer hybrids and nanostructured carbon such as CNTs, graphenes, and any additional experiences in their applications including energy storage devices will be a plus. The start date is flexible, but the position is immediately available from May 15, 2013.
Interested parties should send a CV to Yong Lak Joo: ylj2 at cornell.edu