Nervously watching ARCHIVED - NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover landing on Mars - the most challenging, exciting rock sample coring! Go Perseverance! #CountdownToMars

Presented an e-poster on gas shale swelling & shrinkage at #InterPore2021 this morning. The online poster session experience was actually pretty nice. Looking forward to more discussions during the conference!

A paper from my Master's thesis project on the seismic vulnerability of Pompeii Water Towers has been accepted for publication! Super excited because this will be my first research paper & it reminds me of my passion for #conservation. 🧡

Will ancient monuments like Pompeii Water Towers survive earthquakes? With my amazing former supervisors Università di Padova we proposed a seismic vulnerability assessment strategy for free-standing masonry columns using the 3D DEM. Check out our new paper online: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great article about Enerdrape recent achievement on EPFL front page ! We are glad to share the commissioning of our first pilot installation. Stay tuned for upcoming developments ! actu.epfl.ch/news/using-hea…

An interesting development of effective stress from our group! LMS-EPFL

#DailyMechanician Known as "father of soil mechanics", Karl von Terzaghi laid groundwork for modern methods in geotech analysis & testing. Notably, he introduced the now ubiquitous concept of effective stress—total stress minus pore pressure—to link applied load to soil movement.

It's been wonderful meeting with other researchers at #ICEGT2020 in San Diego. I presented our controlled suction experiment results on Monday & it was great to feel the interaction in the room after such a long time!

A thread about using color as a design tool in science presentations. Color is a great tool to separate different categories of information, to highlight information, or to establish an emotional tone. 🧵1/20

I pased my PhD defense last week! On top of the excitement of wrapping up the 4-year journey, I enjoyed so much the discussions that pushed me further towards the unexplored, unanswered questions.

Well it's already a few weeks into the New Year, but let me reflect on my 2022 - last year I got a PhD, became a father, relocated to Korea, and started a postdoc. Whoa, what a ride!

I was invited to the Dept. of Energy Resources Engineering Saadia Nunow to give a talk about triaxial testing of gas #shale and compacted #bentonite for energy-related applications towards 2050. Surely I had to see this iconic gate of Saadia Nunow!

Even the simplest physical processes are more than meets the eye. For example, flow through arrays of soft hairs turns out to be a more intricate process than we thought, shown elegantly by Ushay et al. at Liquids&Elasticity LAB @Princeton. go.aps.org/3nTVtUF. #FluidDynamics #Elastocapillarity

Indeed, geomechanics chats and Korean liquors were a great pairing! 🪨🍶 Jinhyun Choo

This week, we welcomed students and professors from Tongji University to the 14th KAIST-Tongji Symposium on Civil Engineering & the following Summer School. I was delighted to showcase our research on underground gas storage & co-teach the course #Resillient and #Smart #Cities.

Researchers from Korea and Japan explore the potential of employing programming performance driven by ChatGPT responses to conversational prompts in the field of geotechnical engineering. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…