Dr Min Kyung Shinn, Lecturer in the Physical Sciences of Life

Min studied physics and chemistry at Bard College and completed her PhD in the effect of an intrinsically disordered region in the assembly of a molecular hub during bacterial genome maintenance under the supervision of Prof. Tim Lohman in 2020 at Washington University in St. Louis. For her postdoctoral work, she joined Prof. Rohit Pappu’s lab in the Department of Biomedical Engineering where she determined the role of intrinsically disordered regions in protein assemblies across essential cellular functions, including bacterial cell division and eukaryotic gene expression. In 2025, Min was awarded a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institute of Health. Min established her lab in the Department of Chemistry at King’s College London in 2026.