Dr. MinJun Kim has joined our department as an assistant professor starting in September. Dr. Kim completed his MS and Ph.D degree at Texas A&M University and Brown University respectively. During his Doctoral studies he held the prestigious Simon Ostrach Fellowship. He also spent one year working as a postdoctoral research fellow at Rowland Institute at Harvard. He has been experimentally investigating biological transport phenomena in micro/nanoscale fluidic devices to produce new types of bio/micro/nanotechnology. His research interests include bacterial actuations, nanopore sensors for single molecules, and optical diagnostics for micro/nanofluidics. For more information on Dr. Kim and his research, please visit http://microfluidics.tripod.com

Dr. Alisa Morss will join the department as an assistant professor in January. Dr. Morss received a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. For the following four years, she worked as a jet aircraft engineer in the Technical Leadership Program at GE Aircraft Engines, concurrently earning a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Morss recently completed her doctorate in Medical and Mechanical Engineering through the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Her research investigates mechanical and biochemical interaction between cells and proteins of the blood vessel wall in health and disease.