Corey O'Hern is an Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Yale University, with secondary appointments in the departments of Applied Physics and Physics and in the Graduate Program in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 and then was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago and UCLA until 2002. In July 2002, he joined Yale as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering. Corey is an expert in theoretical and computational studies of granular and other particulate media. In 2015 he was recognized as an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society.
