Invited Speaker

Next-Generation Medical Systems: A Bioresorbable Electronic Device

Yeonsik Choi (Yonsei University)

Biography:Prof. Choi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea). He was NIH K99 postdoctoral fellow in Rogers Research Group (Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics) at Northwestern University, working on creating bioresorbable electrotherapeutic implants. He spent 2011-2015 as a senior researcher in the TECH R&D center at LG Chem. Ltd., developing advanced carbon nanotube nanocomposites. As a Cambridge Trust Scholar, he completed his PhD in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge (2015-2018) on novel functional polymeric nanomaterials for energy harvesting applications.