Jooyoung Im

Sustainable geotechnical engineering solutions to combat climate change and desertification.
Soil erosion prevention and soil preservation against natural and climate hazards.
Geotechnical evaluation of natural; artificial; and bio-treated soils through laboratory (micro) to field (macro) experimental approaches.

Im, J., Tran, An T.P., Chang, I., Cho, G.C., 2017, “Dynamic properties of gel-type biopolymer-treated sands evaluated by Resonant Column (RC) Tests”, Geomechanics and Engineering, Techno Press, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 815-830.
Chang, I., Im, J., Chung, M.C., and Cho, G.C., 2018, “Bovine casein as a new soil strengthening binder from diary wastes”, Construction and Building Materials, Elsevier, Vol. 160, pp. 1-9.
Im, J., Chang, I., Cho, G.C., 2021, “Effects of malonic acid crosslinking starch for soil strength improvement”, Transportation Geotechnics, Elsevier, Vol. 31.

2020 - Ph.D. in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAUST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
2016 - M.A.Sc. in Geotechnical Engineering Program, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
2013 - B.A.Sc. in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea.

2021 - Present - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ali I Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
2020 - 2021 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, KAIST, Korea (Coordination with Korea Ministry of Land, Transportation)

National Scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Technology, 2016
Excellent Paper Award for the Korean Geotechnical Society (KGS), 2016
Global Doctoral Fellowship by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), 2017-2019

Geobiochemical interactions Material development Permanent nuclear waste storage