Education

Ph.D., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea, 2020

M.S., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea, 2015

B.S., Department of Civil Engineering, Pusan National University, Republic of Korea, 2013

SUPERVISOR

Dr. Seunghee Kim

AREAS OF RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL INTEREST

• Bio-inspired geotechnics and bio-geophysics
• Engineered barrier systems for high-level nuclear waste depositories (i.e., bentonite buffer)
• Development of cost-effective apparatus for geotechnical testing.

RESEARCH PROFILES

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1clXsm8AAAAJ&hl=en

HONORS AND AWARDS

• KGS-NA Young Geotechnical Scholar (Received USD 200), Dong-Hwa Noh, “Low-Cost Multimode Free-Vibration Decay Column: Small-Strain Stiffness and Attenuation”, Korea Geotechnical Society (KGS), Los Angeles, California, 2023
• Visiting student program (USD 6000, accommodation, health insurance, visa, and airfare), Ali I. Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2018.
• Best Paper Award, Dong-Hwa Noh and Tae-Hyuk Kwon, "Seismic Monitoring of Permeability Reduction Caused by Bacterial Biopolymer Accumulation", Korean Geotechnical Society (KGS) 2015 Conference, Managing the Science and Technology Center, Seoul, Korea, 2014.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Noh, D.H., Kim, S., Calaunan, J., Feng, Y., Eun, J., and Kim, Y.R. (2025) “Bentonite as an engineered barrier material for nuclear waste Repository - Geotechnical perspectives, key properties, knowledge gaps, and opportunities”, Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 57 (10), 103700. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2025.103700
2. Noh, D.H., Kim, S., Eun, J. and Kim, Y.R. (2025) “Experimental study on gas permeability and desiccation cracking of fiber-reinforced compacted bentonite at high temperature”, Construction and Building Materials, 4, 141053. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2025.141053
3. Noh, D.H., Zadeh, A.H., Zhang, H., Wang, F., Ryu., S., Zhang, C., and Kim, S. (2024) “Convection-enhanced drug delivery: Experimental and analytical studies of infusion behavior in an In-vitro brain surrogate”, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 52, 1693-1705. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-024-03482-4
4. Noh, D.H., Park, J., Santamarina, J.C., and Kwon, T.H. (2023) "Multimode free vibration decay column: Small-strain stiffness and attenuation", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 149(6), 04023029. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1061/JGGEFK.GTENG-10748
5. Noh, D.H., Cha, W., Santamarina, J.C., Cho, G.C., and Kwon, T.H. (2021) "The effect of soft viscoelastic biopolymer on the undrained shear behavior of loose sands", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 147(8), 04021072. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0002582