Woojin Choi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science & Biotechnology
College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Sungkyunkwan University
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✔ Email:
woojin.choi@skku.edu
choiwoojin0321@gmail.com
✔ Tel: +82-31-290-7802
✔ Office: Bldg 62, Room 221
✔ Lab: Bldg 61, Room 256
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Woojin Choi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science and Biotechnology at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU). He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Yonsei University under the guidance of Prof. Jinkee Hong, where he focused on polymer structure engineering for advanced biomaterials. He then conducted research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Giovanni Traverso. His research focuses on engineering functional and biointeractive materials at the interface of biomaterials and food technology, with applications in food safety, oral health, and gastrointestinal health.
Professional Experience
2026-Present | Assistant professor, Department of Food Science & Biotechnology, SKKU
2024-2026 | Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
* Advisor: Prof. Giovanni Traverso
* Co-affilated at Broad Institute of MIT and Havard, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Brigham and Women’s Hospitals, Harvard Medical School
2019 | Visiting researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Academic Education
2019-2024 | PhD, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University
* Advisor: Prof. Jinkee Hong
2013-2019 | BS, Department of Chemical Engineering, Myongji University (Summa cum laude)
Honors & Awards (selected)
2024-2026 | Korea Health Technology R&D Project, Ministry of Health & Welfare (KR)
2022-2024 | Basic Science Research Program for Graduate Students, Ministry of Education (KR)
2022 | Yonsei Young Research Fellowship, Yonsei University
2017 | TAEKWANG Scholarship, TAEKWANG group
Research Keywords
Biomaterials, ingestible biomaterials, functional food materials, food-contact materials, dental biomaterials, gastrointestinal biomaterials
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