Robert C. Womack Endowed Chair Professor in Engineering
Southern Methodist University
Dr. MinJun Kim is the Robert C. Womack Endowed Chair Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Southern Methodist University. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Yonsei University and Texas A&M University, and his Ph.D. from Brown University as a Simon Ostrach Fellow. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard's Rowland Institute, he joined Drexel University in 2006, eventually becoming a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics. Dr. Kim’s research focuses on biological transport and nano/microscale architectures for advanced nanobiotechnology, including nanopore technology and microrobotics. His notable awards include the NSF CAREER Award (2008), Drexel Career Development Award (2008), Human Frontier Science Program Young Investigator Award (2009), Army Research Office Young Investigator Award (2010), Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2011), Bionic Engineering Outstanding Contribution Award (2013), Louis & Bessie Stein Fellowship (2008 & 2014), ISBE Fellow (2014), ASME Fellow (2014), Top10 Netexplo Award (2016), KSEA & KOFST Engineer of the Year Award (2016), IEEE Senior Member (2017), Gerald J. Ford Research Fellowship (2018), Protégé of the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (2019), NRF of Korea Brain Pool Fellow (2023), AIMBE Fellow (2024), Fellow of the RSC (2024), and NAI Senior Member (2025).
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