Principle Investigator
Prof. Wonjae Choi
Email: wj_choi@ewha.ac.kr Office: Jinseonmi-gwan Room 318
Education and Experience
2021- : Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Ewha Womans University
2019-2021: Postdoctoral Researcher, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2018-2020: Postdoctoral Researcher, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University
2013-2018: Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University
2008-2013: B.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University
2006-2008: Gyeonggi Science High School
Graduate students
Gyuna Kwak
Research Interests: Life cycle assessment
Gyuna is a graduate student at Ewha. She joined the lab from July 2021 as an intern and started her mater degree from March 2023. Her research interests include the life cycle assessment of various hydrogen production pathways.
Juha Lee
Research Interests: Life cycle assessment
Juha is a graduate student at Ewha. She joined the lab from January 2022 as an intern and started her mater degree from March 2023. Her research interests include the life cycle assessment of steel production with various fuels and the temporal resolution of well-to-wheel greenhouse gas emissions of battery electric vehicles.
Yehyeong Lim
Research Interests: Thermochemical redox cycle
Yehyeong is a graduate student at Ewha. She joined the lab from July 2021 as an intern and started her mater degree from March 2024. Her research interests include developing device and system designs of thermochemical redox cycle to produce green hydrogen from renewable heat.
Yujin Jung
Research Interests: Life cycle assessment
Yujin is a graduate student at Ewha. She joined the lab from July 2022 as an intern and started her mater degree from March 2024. Her research interests include the life cycle assessment of e-fuel production pathways.
Huiju Roh
Research Interests: Solid oxide fuel cell fueled by ammonia
Huiju is a graduate student at Ewha. She joined the lab from Jan 2023 as an intern and started her mater degree from March 2024. Her research interests include solid oxide fuel cell operation fueled by ammonia.
Seowoo Jeong
Research Interests: Solid oxide cell
Seowoo is a graduate student at Ewha. She joined the lab from Jul 2023 as an intern and started her mater degree from March 2024. Her research interests include simulation of solid oxide cell degradation to predict the lifetime of solid oxide cell.
Inyoung Ko
Research Interests: Life cycle assessment of lithium-ion battery
Inyoung is a graduate student at Ewha. She joined the lab from Nov 2023 as an intern and started her mater degree from March 2024. Her research interests include life cycle assessment of lithium-ion battery.
Lab Interns
Minkyoung Park
Research Interests: Solid oxide fuel cell hybrid system
Minkyoung is an undergraduate student at Ewha. She joined the lab from July 2021. Her research interests include a solid oxide fuel cell hybrid system to achieve extremely high efficiency.
Nayoung Kim
Research Interests: Solid oxide fuel cell degradation
Nayoung is an undergraduate student at Ewha. She joined the lab from July 2022. Her research interests include the degradation of solid oxide fuel cell.
Jaeyeon Ahn
Research Interests: Life cycle assessment of vehicle production
Jaeyeon is an undergraduate student at Ewha. She joined the lab from Jul 2023. Her research interests include life cycle assessment of vehicle production.
Dajung Kim
Research Interests: Reverisble solid oxide cell
Dajung is an undergraduate student at Ewha. She joined the lab from Jul 2023. Her research interests include flow channel optimizations of reversible solid oxide cell.
Nayeon Kim
Research Interests: Solid oxide co-electrolysis
Nayeon is an undergraduate student at Ewha. She joined the lab from Jan 2024. Her research interests include flow channel optimizations of solid oxide co-electrolysis cell.
Taekyung Kang
Research Interests: Thermochemical redox cycle
Taekyung is an undergraduate student at Ewha. She joined the lab from Mar 2024. Her research interests include electric potential assisted thermochemical redox cycle for hydrogen production.
Jimin Hong
Research Interests: TBD
Jimin is an undergraduate student at Ewha. She joined the lab from July 2024.
Sejin Park
Research Interests: TBD
Sejin is an undergraduate student at Ewha. She joined the lab from July 2024.
Openings
We are looking for highly motivated graduate and undergraduate students.
Openings are shown below. If interested, please contact to wj_choi@ewha.ac.kr.
1. Degradation modeling of electrochemical devices
2. Life cycle assessment of fuels and automobiles
3. Simulation and experiment of hydrogen and e-fuel production systems
Alumni
Jisu Yoon
Affiliation: Hyundai Motor Company (from Jan 2023)
Her research was about modeling of proton exchange membrane fuel cell.
Sooyeon Chon
Affiliation: Hyundai Motor Company (from Jan 2023)
Her research was about electrolysis modeling.
Jee Woo Im
Affiliation: Hyundai Rotem (from Aug 2023)
Her research was about finding the optimal materials of thermochemical redox cycle.
Eejung Heo
Affiliation: GM Motors Company (from March 2023)
Her research was about using thermochemical redox cycles in pre-existing high temperature facilities.
Soojeong Moon
Affiliation: Ewha Womans University
Her research was about solid oxide electrolysis simulations.
Hyewon Hwang
Affiliation: Samsung SDI
(from Feb 2024)
Her research was about Reversible solid oxide cell.
Thesis (M.S.)
Reversible Solid Oxide Cell System with Thermocline-Type Thermal Energy Storage: Numerical and Techno-Economic Analysis
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