Prof. Seok ‘Sid’ Chung

Seok (Sid) Chung is a Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University and the at the KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology. He leads a research group working on hydrogel incorporating microfluidic cell culture assay and microscale tissue reconstitution. He obtained MS (1998) and PhD degree (2002) in School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University.

After five years building and working at a start-up company (NanoEntek Co. (KOSDAQ 039860)), he worked with professor Roger D. Kamm at MIT as post-doctoral fellow for four years. He joined Korea University as faculty member in 2009.