When Nature Built It First
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What this talk is about
The Hang Theory. A lecture series by Hang Dallas.
One speaker. One big idea. One good room.
Where · Times Ten Cellars.
Nature has been engineering solutions for billions of years. Bacterial motility, cellular transport, the mechanics of how organisms move and sense their environments: these aren't just biological curiosities. They're blueprints. Dr. MinJun Kim walks through how natural systems translate into human-scale problems, from single-molecule analysis to micro and nanorobotics, showing where biology stops being metaphor and starts being material fact.
How the night goes
Doors at 6:30 PM. Claim a seat, settle in.
We kick things off around 6:55 PM.
Dr. Kim takes the floor at 7:00 PM.
Questions from the room near 7:45 PM.
Then we linger. Meet the speaker, meet each other, around 8:00 PM.
Out by 8:30 PM.
Who's speaking
MinJun Kim
Dr. MinJun Kim presently holds the Robert C. Womack Endowed Chair Professor of Engineering position at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Methodist University. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Yonsei University in Korea and Texas A&M University, respectively. Dr. Kim completed his Ph.D. degree in the Division of Engineering at Brown University, where he was a recipient of the prestigious Simon Ostrach Fellowship. Following his graduate studies, Dr. Kim served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Rowland Institute at Harvard University. In 2006, he joined Drexel University as Assistant Professor and later earned a promotion to Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics. Dr. Kim has been dedicated to exploring biological transport phenomena, encompassing cellular/molecular mechanics and engineering in novel nano/microscale architectures, with the goal of advancing new types of nanobiotechology. This includes groundbreaking work in nanopore technology and nano/microrobotics. Throughout his career, Dr. Kim has garnered numerous accolades, including the National Science Foundation 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), KOFST Fellowship (2013 & 2015), International society of Bionic Engineering Outstanding Contribution Award (2013), Louis & Bessie Stein Fellowship (2008 & 2014), ISBE Fellow (2014), ASME Fellow (2014), UNESCO/Netexplo Top10 Technology Innovation 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), Brain Pool Fellowship of the National Research Foundation of Korea (2023), AIMBE Fellow (2024), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2024), Moody Outstanding Mentor Award (2024), and Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (2025).
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Times Ten Cellars · Dallas, TX