A Brief Bio

 Minh Phan is an experimental biophysicist. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Sogang University (Seoul, Korea) in 2017. He then joined Neutron Scattering Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.  During his time at Oak Ridge, he had established a biomedically-relevant research program utilizing model biomembranes as a platform to study the interactions between lipid-lipid and lipid-protein at a molecular level. He also contributed to developing the sample environments and initiated new scientific avenues for the LIQREF beamline - a neutron reflectometer with a horizontal sample stage at Spallation Neutron Source, ORNL. Two of his main contributions were commissioning the free-liquid measurement with the Langmuir trough apparatus and developing its user community in biological and polymer sciences, and initiating a combination between neutron reflectometry and rheology to improve fundamental understanding of 3D printing and flow coating applications.

 In April 2022, Dr. Phan started working as a scientist at the Center for Neutron Science, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the University of Delaware. In this role, he will participate in the development of the world-class neutron spin echo spectrometer at the NIST Center for Neutron Research and its user community with the funded grant of $12M from the National Science Foundation (PI: Prof. Norman Wagner). He will also continue his research in membrane biophysics, but will expectedly include the dynamic components at a nanoscopic scale in sample characterization to achieve a more complete picture of the biomembrane-associated events.