2015-2023: Assistant Professor in the Department Mechanical Engineering and Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute at Johns Hopkins University
2012-2014: Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University
2012: Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Harvard University
2004-2007: Staff Scientist at EIC Laboratories Inc.
2004: M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2000: B.S. (summa cum laude) in Materials Science and Engineering at Seoul National University
S.-Y. Jeon, B. Shen, N. A. Traugutt, Z. Zhu, L. Fang, C. M. Yakacki, T. D. Nguyen, S. H. Kang*, “Synergistic Energy Absorption Mechanisms of a Bistable Architected Liquid Crystal Elastomers,” Advanced Materials, 34, 2200272 (2022).
S. Orrego, Z. Chen, U. Krekora, D. Hou, S.-Y Jeon, M. Pittman, C. Montoya, Y. Chen, S. H. Kang*, “Bioinspired materials with self-adaptable mechanical properties,” Advanced Materials, 32, 1906970 (2020).
S.-Y. Jeon, S. H. Kang, “Electrochemical reactions drive morphing of materials,” Nature, 573, 198-199 (2019).
Z. Jiang, O. Erol, D. Chatterjee, W. Xu, N. Hibino, L. H. Romer, S. H. Kang, and D. H. Gracias, “Direct Ink Writing of Poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE) with Tunable Mechanical Properties,” ACS Materials and Interfaces, 11, 28289-28295 (2019).