ABSTRACT

BRIEF ACADEMIC/EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

 Dr. Jaehun Chun is a Senior Research Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Lab. He earned Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell and performed postdoctoral research at Princeton and NIST. He has been working for many DOE projects and is currently in a leadership team for two PNNL Lab Initiatives associated with separation and quantum computing. He has been an affiliate professor at Levich Institute and Dept. Chemical Engineering since 2020 and serving professional activities such as session chairs at ACS/AIChE/ACS Colloids, a panelist at National Academy of Sciences, and discussion lead at GRC.

MOST RECENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

 Dr. Jaehun Chun is interested to understand electromagnetic and hydrodynamic forces, associated with self/directed assembly and separation. Specifically, he is interested to study how to achieve rigorous coupling between phenomena over a wide range of spatiotemporal scales with interfaces. This involves the development of revised statistical mechanical formulations/continuum theories, combined with molecular simulations, and state-of-the-art computing (e.g., quantum computing). He is also intriguing to understand consequences of the complicated interplay between forces on emergent phenomena (e.g., rheological responses in dense colloidal suspensions) for energy and environmental problems.