Post Doctoral Fellows

Cheolwoon Woo

Education: I completed my master degree in February 2017 and doctoral degree in the Graduate School of Public Health at Seoul National University in August 2023. During this time I did research exploring many microbial dynamics (e.g.,

My Ph.D. thesis title was “Unraveling ecology and zoonotic pathogens of wild animals in Korea by environmental fecal analysis using high–throughput sequencing”.

My Master thesis title was “Octanol–water distribution coefficients of fungal particles collected from the atmosphere”.

Postdoctoral researcher: I started working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Haig Research Group in October 2023. Currently, my research is focused on assessing how water chemistry and plumbing design factors influence the virulence of nontuberculous mycobacteria.

Contact: chw372@pitt.edu