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Dr. Yarin is an author of two chapters in Handbook of Atomization and Sprays: Theory and Applications, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (2011). Dr. Yarin is one of the three co-Editors of "Springer Handbook of Experimental Fluid Mechanics", 2007, and the Associate Editor of the journal "Experiments in Fluids" published by Springer. Dr. Yarin worked on nano-textured self-healing materials, electrospinning, solution blowing, drop impacts and collision phenomena, generally in the field of materials science, applied physics, fluid and solid mechanics. He is also the Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of the Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and of the journal "Archives of Mechanics", as well as the Member ofthe Editorial Advisory Board of the journal "Electrospinning". Prof. Yarin is the Fellow of the American Physical Society. Prof. Yarin was the Fellow of the Rashi Foundation, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and was awarded Gutwirth Award, Hershel Rich Prize and Prize for Technological Development for Defense against Terror of the American-Technion Society. His present h-index (Google Scholar, 1/2018) is 59.



Min Wook Lee completed his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Korea University in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He pursued his Ph.D. studies at the School of Mechanical Engineering at Korea University (2014), followed by postdoctoral studies in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (from January 2014 to March 2017). In 2017 Dr. Lee has been appointed as a Senior Researcher in Multifunctional Structural Composite Research Center at KIST (Korea Institute of Science and Technology). His research interests include electrospinnig, solution blowing, self-healing composites and fracture mechanics. His present h-index (Scopus, 1/2018) is 16. Dr. Lee is the author of 39 research papers and 17 domestic/PCT patents.





Seongpil An received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the School of Mechanical Engineering from Korea University (Seoul, Republic of Korea) in 2012 and 2017, respectively. Dr. An is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2017. His current research interests include various mechanical, chemical, and electrical engineering applications of nano- and micro-scale electrospun polymer fibers, as well as nano-textured self-healing materials. He has hitherto published 55 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and has registered 11 patents in Republic of Korea. His present h-index (Google Scholar, 01/2018) is 15.

Dr. Sam S. Yoon is a Professor of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Korea University since 2005. He received a B.S. degree from Colorado School of Mines in 1997, a M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics & Astronautics from Purdue University in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Fire Science & Technology (9132) at Sandia National Laboratory from 2002 to 2005. He was a Visiting Professor at the NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) in 2011. He has so far published over 186 peer-reviewed journal papers in the areas of electronics thermal management, heaters, thermal barrier coatings, supersonic cold spraying, inkjet printing, electrospraying, electrospinning, aerosol deposition, surface modification (superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic), self-cleaning, self-healing composite materials with focus on energy and environmental applications. His present h-index (Scopus, 1/2018) is 25.