Speaker

Dr. KOH Soo Jin Adrian

Dr. KOH Soo Jin Adrian received his PhD from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2008.  He was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences from 2008 to 2010.  During the same period, he holds a concurrent appointment of Scientist at the Institute of High Performance Computing (Singapore).  He is currently an Assistant Professor at NUS, a post that he has held since 2012.  His research interests are soft active materials, utilized in specific fields of soft robotics, energy harvesting and autonomous sensing.  The key material component in soft active materials is elastomeric rubber, in which natural rubber is an excellent candidate.  He hopes to engage the rubber production community to raise awareness on his research, to break new grounds and open up new markets for natural rubber.  Dr. Koh was awarded the “Promising International Researcher Award in Electroactive Transducers” by the European Union in 2013, in Switzerland.  He is a keynote and invited speaker for numerous materials conferences, workshops and seminars.