Jongkuk Ko receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Jongkuk Ko has been working on interfacial engineering of function organic and inorganic materials to develop new class of electrified hydrogel machines. He received Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea in February 2018. Then, he moved to Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea University to extend his background in polymer chemistry and physics to diverse soft machine applications. On November 1st 2021, he joined the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart with the support of a two-year Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers.
“Thank you for the great opportunity to work in Prof. Metin Sitti’s group with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. I would like to bring important breakthrough in the field of soft machines based on his profound concepts and novel designs of functional materials and soft devices.” says Jongkuk. Prof. Sitti leads the Physical Intelligence Department, which he founded in 2014 at the Stuttgart site of the MPI-IS.
Each year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants approximately 500 fellowships to postdoctoral researchers of all nationalities and disciplines from abroad. They must have above average qualifications, be at the beginning of their academic career and have only completed their doctorate in the past four years. A Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers allows the awardee to carry out long-term research of six months to two years in Germany. Applicants choose their own topic of research and their academic host.

Find out more about the Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship here.