Professor Seung-Bok Choi (MEC) has received the “2025 Best Researcher Award” from the International Research Awards on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (IRAA, MO). His main contribution and honorable achievement in innovative research is the molecular analysis of Magnetorheological Fluids (MRF). He has published more than 50 articles in MO related journals such as Internal Journal of Molecular Sciences. Specifically, he has focused on constitutive modeling of nana-particle based MRF via SEM images and XRD to identify the chain structures of the particle along with the magnetic field direction.
This marks the second consecutive year that Professor Choi has received a Best Researcher Award, having been recognized in a different category in 2024 by the International Research Awards on Sensing Technology.
Professor Choi has been working at SUNY Korea since March 2021, after retirement from Inha University where he worked for 30 years. He is still actively serving as a journal editor for more than 15 international journals (SCI), including Smart Materials and Structures, Scientific Report and Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures. The number of his publications to date is 887, based on Web of Science. According to the platform ScholarGPS.com, his word ranking of Vibration Control is #1 and #2 in the Smart Materials. Currently, he is a fellow of both the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) and the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK).
Read about his acheivement in 2024: HERE
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