Welcome!
Sucheol Shin
Research Associate
Department of Chemistry
Univeristy of Texas at Austin
I am a theoretical chemist and computational biophysicist
I am currently a postdoc in the lab of Prof. Dave Thirumalai at UT Austin. For my PhD, I worked with Prof. Adam Willard at MIT.
My research training background involves statistical mechanics, polymer physics, molecular simulations, and information-theoretic/data-driven approaches.
The central theme of my research interests is to create new theoretical and computational methods to investigate molecular structure and dynamics which underlie biological functions in living systems.
Education / Employments
Research Associate (2023–Present)
/Postdoctoral Fellow (2018–2023)
University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis: "Orientational Fluctuations of Liquid Water at Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interfaces"
B.S., Chemistry, 2011
University of California, Berkeley
with highest honor, minor in Physics
R.O.K. National Service (2011–2013)
Research Interests
Molecular interactions/dynamics in chromatin and their role in transcription
Structure–function relationship of glycans; glycan–protein & glycan–glycan interactions
Role of water and ions in biomolecular association
Coarse-grained force fields development
Application of AI/ML to gain new molecular-level insights
Honors and Awards
BPS Multiscale Genome Organization Subgroup’s Best Poster Award, February 2023.
ACS PHYS Division Young Investigator Award, August 2022.
Best Student Talk Award, ACS Meeting—Division of Physical Chemistry, August 2015.
Outstanding Poster Award, American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, July 2014.
Graduate Fellowship, Kwanjeong Educational Foundation, Korea, September 2013–June 2018.
Erich O. and Elly M. Saegebarth Prize in Chemistry, UC Berkeley, May 2011.
Undergraduate Fellowship, Kwanjeong Educational Foundation, Korea, August 2007–May 2011.
Invited Talks
NYU Chromatin Club (virtual), November 2023.
US–Korea Conference 2023 on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship: Chemistry Symposium, Dallas, TX, August 2023.
Berkeley Statistical Mechanics Meeting—Phillip L. Geissler Memorial Symposium, Berkeley, CA, January 2023.
ACS National Meeting—Division of Physical Chemistry, Chicago, IL, August 2022.
Annual Meeting of the International Physics of Living System (iPoLS) Network, Montpellier, France, June 2022.
Seoul National University Physical Chemistry Symposium (virtual), December 2021
MIT-NSF International Summer School & Genome Architecture and Function Workshop (virtual), June 2020.
CSHL Meeting: Genome Organization & Nuclear Function (virtual), April 2020
Gordon Research Conference—Chemistry and Physics of Liquids, Holderness, NH, August 2019.