I was born and raised in the city of Aachen, Germany. It doesn’t quite have the same geopolitical importance now as it did 1200 years ago when Karl the Great ruled most of Europe from there, but it still is a pleasant city and it was nice to grow up there.

 

My first higher education I received at the venerable Eberhard-Karls University of Tuebingen, Germany. I was a rare double-major in Physics and Biochemistry, and remain a physicist at heart to this day. I left Tuebingen having received a great education and had gotten vordiploms in both majors and perfect GPAs.

 

I pursued graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After working for 4 years under Bruce Tidor I received my Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Most of my thesis work dealt with computational systems biology and theoretical biophysics, among other things I developed a novel approach to dissect network graphs, a new data mining algorithm for microarrays and a new modeling approach for complex biochemical reaction systems. MIT was truly a terrific place to be and I have many fond memories of my time there.

 

Since I had been in academia for over 20 years, I felt the desire to see a bit of the real world. So I followed the call of the abundant on-campus recruiters and went to work as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. Here I got to work in a variety of industries (High-tech, telecom, consumer-goods etc.). While I enjoyed my time as a consultant, I came to realize that my true calling really is science.

 

Since the beginning of 2005, I have been a postdoctoral associate here at Yale.

 

When I’m not working, I enjoy rock-climbing, hiking, running, skiing, weight-lifting and all sorts of other fun activities.

CV

Philip M. Kim, Ph.D.

The Gerstein Lab

This is the prosaic version. My formal CV can be downloaded as pdf here.