Dr. Simuck F. Yuk, Ph.D.

Dr. Simuck F. Yuk is an assistant professor of chemical engineering in the Department of Chemical & Biological Science & Engineering at the United States Military Academy. He teaches General Chemistry I, II, and core chemical/bio engineering courses, as well as serving as a company and department academic counselor for the chemical engineering program.

He received his doctorate in chemical engineering at Ohio State University in 2015 under the supervision of Professor Aravind Asthagiri. His studies mainly focused on understanding the enantiospecificity of naturally chiral metal surfaces supported on oxide substrates. 

Dr. Yuk worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Valentino R. Cooper at Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2015 to 2017, investigating the relative phase stability in complex oxides, and with Dr. Roger Rousseau and Dr. Vassiliki-Alexandra Glezakou at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory from 2018 to 2020, pursuing theoretical investigation of microporous and oxide systems at an atomistic level. 

He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Chemical Society. Dr. Yuk leads a computational group of research cadets, exploring the physical, chemical, and catalytic properties of 2D and 3D nanomaterials in the application of renewable energy technologies.