Principle Investigator

Professor MinJun Kim Ph.D (Curtis Hall #158 Office)

- Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics

- School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health System

 

Contact Information:

3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Tel) 215-895-2295 Fax) 215-895-1478

Email) mkim@coe.drexel.edu

 

A. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Single Molecule Biophysics, Rowland Institute at Harvard, Harvard University, 2005-2006.

Ph.D., Division of Engineering, Fluid, Thermal, Chemical Processes (FTCP), Brown University, 2005.

M.S.M.E., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2001.

B.S., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, 1997.

 

B. Honors & Awards

Drexel's Career Development Award, Drexel University (2008)

NSF Fellowship, NSF Summer Institute on Nanomechanics, Nanomaterials and Micro/Nanomanufacturing (2008)

Stein Fellowship, Louis and Bessie Stein Family Foundation (2008 - 2009)

National Science Foundation Early Faculty CAREER Award (2008 - 2013)

Best of Program Award, James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation (2007)

Simon Ostrach Fellowship, Brown University (2004 - 2005)

 

Co-chair, Microfluidics Symposium 2008 & 2009: Fluid Engineering in Micro- and Nanosystems at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) (2008 & 2009)

Keynote organizer, Microfluidics Symposium 2007: Fluid Engineering in Micro- and Nanosystems at the 2007 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) (2007)

 

C. WORKING EXPERIENCES

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. Aug. 2006 - present.

- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics

- Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems

Boston University, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering & Dept. of Physics, Boston, MA. Apr. 2006 - Jul. 2006.

- Visiting Research Scientist

Harvard University, Rowland Institute at Harvard, Cambridge, MA. Jul. 2005 - Jul. 2006.

- Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Brown University, Division of Engineering, RI. Apr. 2005 - Jul. 2005.

- Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Samsung Electronic Corp, Semiconductor Division, Suwon, Korea. Jan. 1997 - Aug. 1999.

- Junior Research Scientist

 

D. RESEARCH INTERESTS

Micro and Nano-scale Fluid Mechanics

Biological Transports Phenomena

Optical Diagnostics for Biological Flows and Microfluidics

Micro and Nano-scale Actuators and Sensors

Development of Micro and Nanofabrication

Biomaterials for Photovoltaics

Microbial Risk Assessment

 

E. TEACHING COURSES

MEM380/800 Nanoscale Manufacturing & Metrology (FY 2007-2008 Winter)

MEM 310 Thermodynamic Analysis I (FY 2006-2008)

MEM 699 Nanopore Sensors (FY 2006-2008)

MEM 699 Topics in Bacterial Actutation (FY 2006-2008)