Kueyoung is an incoming Churchill Scholar at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, where he will pursue an MPhil in Physics in the group of Prof. Richard Friend. He graduated summa cum laude (4.0 GPA) from Penn State with honors in chemistry, where he worked with Prof. Lauren Zarzar on the non-equilibrium dynamics of oil-in-water emulsions.

Through his interdisciplinary research projects ranging from elucidating how surfactants impact wetted oil droplets to employing DNA origami to investigating photosynthetic energy transport, he has had the opportunity to join diverse scientific communities across the world, including at the University of Pennsylvania, UC Berkeley, the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, and MIT. He has authored two first-author publications and received multiple awards for his work at local and national conferences. Following his jaunt across the pond, he will return to the United States for his PhD in Chemistry at UC Berkeley. With a goal of tackling challenges in sustainability during his research career as a professor, he is determined to apply his collaborative mindset and ceaseless curiosity at the intersection of chemistry, physics, and biology.

Outside of the lab, Kueyoung organizes science outreach for local K12 students and served as the President of the Eberly College of Science’s student ambassador organization. In his free time, you can find Kueyoung lumbering through his (admittedly daunting) stack of "to be read" literary fiction, lifting heavy objects for fun in the gym, and agonizing over his coffee-brewing technique.