SOLID MECHANICS @ KAIST. We tackle challenging problems in the emerging areas of Solid Mechanics and Condensed Matter. The central thrust of the group is to understand the mechanistic underpinnings of large deformation, flow and interactions of solids and condensed matter, and harness this understanding to help design better new materials, microstructures and devices in extreme, multiphysics settings. Our current research focuses on...

News and Highlights

• (Nov, 2026) Hansohl delivers a short course on continuum mechanics at the KSME Fall Meeting in Jeju.

• (October, 2026) Hansohl has been invited to give a talk in the Mechanical Engineering Department Seminar at Columbia University in the City of New York.

• (August, 2026) Our lab is featured in the August issue of the KAIST ME Newsletter.

• (July, 2026) Seunghwan's work on mechanical anisotropy in 3D-printed materials has been featured as an Inside Cover in Soft Matter. Check out Soft Matt. 2026.

• (July, 2026) Hansohl has been invited to give a seminar at Leibniz University Hannover (postponed).

• (July, 2026) Hansohl has been invited to give a presentation at the 17th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026) in Munich, Germany.

• (June, 2025) Seunghee (with 정운) presented his work on viscoelasticity of liquid crystal elastomers at the 20th U.S. Nat. Cong. Theo. Appl. Mech. (USNCTAM 2026), Pasadena, CA.

• (June, 2026) Hansohl co-organized a symposium (with Eric, Shawn) on coupled mechanics at USNCTAM 2026.

• (June, 2026) Seunghyeon successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. We've got another Ph.D. from the group. Many congratulations, Dr. Lee!

• (April, 2026) Hansohl has been invited to deliver a presentation in the Materials and Solid Mechanics Seminar Series at Brown University.

• (Feb, 2026) Jehoon won the Outstanding Poster Award for "Mechanics of Heterogeneous Disordered Materials (JMPS 2025)" at KSCM 2026. Many congratulations!

• (Jan, 2026) Hansohl has been invited to give a presentation at the coming Advances in Applied Mechanics Conference (AAM 2026), Gran Canaria, Spain (declined).

• (Jan, 2026) Hansohl presented our work (with 승현) on uncertainty quantification for modeling of bcc materials at the Int. Conf. of Plasticity (ICPDF 2026), Geelong, Australia.

• (Jan, 2026) Jaehee, a job seeker, has recently joined the Silberstein and Roeder labs at Cornell University as a postdoctoral associate. Wishing her all the best! 

• (Opening, 2026) 2026/2027년부터 우리 랩에서 함께 연구할 박사 및 석사과정 학생을 모집합니다. 우리 연구에 관심이 있는 분은 hansohl @ kaist로 연락 주시길 바랍니다.

• (Opening, 2026) 우리 랩에서 함께 (개별)연구할 학부학생을 모집합니다. 우리 연구에 관심이 있는 분은 hansohl @ kaist로 연락 주시길 바랍니다.

• Call for paper (KSCM 2026 @ kaist)

• Office hour for undergraduates/graduates: by appointment; E-mail 보내세요.

• News arXiv (~ 2025)

Latest Publications

• Tunable viscoelasticity in phase-separated soft materials, G. Lee et al., Int. J. Solids and Structures, 339, 2026

• Mechanical anisotropy of 3D-printed digital materials at large strains, S. H. Lee et al., Soft Matter, 22 (28), 2026

• Bayesian inference and uncertainty quantification for modeling of body-centered cubic single crystals, S. Lee et al., Int. J. Plasticity, 201, 2026