Education and Experience
Sep 2024 - Present Center for Living Systems Fellow,
University of Chicago, USA
Faculty mentor: Vincenzo
Vitelli
Aug 2015 - Aug 2024 Ph.D. in Physics, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA
Thesis Advisor: Nigel
Goldenfeld
Aug 2011 - Jun 2015 B.S. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Honors and Awards
Center for Living Systems Postdoctoral Fellowship, UChicago, 2024-2027
Listed in Teachers ranked as excellent, UIUC, Spring 2021
L.S. Edelheit Family Fellowship in Biological Physics, UIUC, Fall 2020
University Fellowship, UIUC, Fall 2019
Honorable Mention for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 2016, 2017
Illinois Distinguished Fellowship, UIUC, 2015-2018
Paul E. Gray Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Researcher, MIT, 2012
Publications
3. S.H. Choi, V.D. Rao, T. Gernat, A.R. Hamilton, G.E. Robinson and N. Goldenfeld. "Individual variations lead to universal and cross species patterns of social behavior," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 117, 31754-31759 (2020) [link]
2. M.A. Tahir, R.C.
Van Lehn, S.H. Choi and A. Alexander-Katz. "Solvent-exposed lipid
tail protrusions depend on lipid membrane composition and
curvature," Biochim. Biophys. Acta Biomembr. 1858,
1207-1215 (2016) [link]
1. A.F. Young, J.D. Sanchez-Yamagishi, B. Hunt, S.H. Choi, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, R.C. Ashoori and P. Jarillo-Herrero. "Tunable symmetry breaking and helical edge transport in a graphene quantum spin Hall state," Nature 505, 528-532 (2014) [link]
Presentations
Contributed talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Stochastic Physics in Biology, 2025
Contributed talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting, 2024
Invited talk at Online Seminar, Biological Research Information Center, Korea, 2021
Contributed talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting, 2021
Invited talk at Complex Systems Seminar, Queen Mary University of London, 2020
Contributed talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting, 2020
Poster presentation at Institute for Genomic Biology Theme review, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019
Poster presentation at Boulder Summer School 2019: Theoretical Biophysics, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2019
Poster presentation at Summer School on Soft Solids and Complex Fluids, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2018
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant
Discussion for Physics 325 (Classical Mechanics I), UIUC, Spring 2023
Discussion for Physics 326 (Classical Mechanics II), UIUC, Spring 2021 (Listed as Teachers ranked as excellent)
Discussion for Physics 425 (Electromagnetic Fields I), UIUC, Spring 2020
Lab for Physics 214/213 (Quantum Physics/Thermal Physics), UIUC, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
Grader
8.044 (Statistical Physics I), MIT, Spring 2015