PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

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Hyun-Joong Chung (정현중; 鄭現中)

Professor
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Hyun-Joong Chung is a Professor of chemical and materials engineering at the University of Alberta. His research centers on gels and elastomers, including those with functional additives and reinforcements, for applications such as sensors, actuators, smart textiles, and medical devices.

His key competence lies in his broad experiences in materials science both in academia and industry spans a wide range of hands-on experiences from polymer sciences to wearable biomedical devices, and then to microelectronics fabrication and device characterization.  Prior to his faculty position (U. Alberta, 2013-present), he fabricated stretchable bioelectronics for epidermal and cardiovascular applications (Post-doc @ U. Illinois, 2009-2012), contributed in developing prototype large-area OLED TVs by developing zinc oxide based thin film transistors (senior engineer @ Samsung Displays, 2006-2009), and studied on the role of jamming nanoparticles in phase-separating polymer blend films (PhD @ U. Pennsylvania, 2005). He has a bachelor’s degree in materials science and engineering (BSc @ KAIST, 2000)

  • University of Alberta [Professor] 2023-present
    University of Alberta [Associate Prof.] 2019-2023
    University of Alberta [Assistant Prof.] 2013-2019
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA [PD/RA] 2009-2012
    Samsung Display, Korea [Senior Engineer] 2006-2009

  • University of Pennsylvania, USA [PhD] 2005 (Materials Sci. Eng.)
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) [BS] 2000 (Materials Sci. Eng.)

  • MatE 491/669 – Physics and Properties of Functional Materials (F16, F17, F18, F19, F20, F22, W25, (W26))
    CME 482/ ChE 689 – Fundamentals of Polymers / Polymer Properties (F14, F17, F23)
    CME 494/694 or 482/689 - Introduction to Polymer Science and Engineering (F24, (F25))
    CME 694 – Physicochemical Properties of Gels and Elastomers (F19)
    MatE 211 – Characterization of Materials (W19, W20, W21, W23)
    MatE 202 – Materials Science II (F13, W14, W15, S16, S17, W23)
    MatE 335 – Phase Tranformation I (F23)
    MatE 390 – Introduction to Nano and Functional Materials (F15)
    CME 483 – Colloquium II (W13, W21)
    CME 481 – Colloquium I (F14, F16, (F25))

  • University of Alberta Innovation Award 2024
    University of Alberta Innovation Award 2023
    Hanwha Non-Tenured Faculty Award 2015