Corey O’Hern joined the faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale with joint appointments in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics, Physics, and Graduate Program in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (CBB) in July 2002 after postdoctoral fellowships in physics at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Los Angeles. His research group tackles a broad range of fundamental questions in soft matter and biological materials using a combination of theoretical and computational techniques. His research is currently funded by the National Science Foundation‚ Army Research Office, and National Institutes of Health. He has authored more than 160 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and given more than 250 seminars, colloquia, and presentations at universities and scientific meetings in the US and abroad. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and has served in a number of leadership positions in the US soft matter research community, including the Chair of the Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics of the American Physical Society.
