John King

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John received his PhD from the University of Michigan working on time-resolved multidimensional infrared spectroscopy. He was then a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Here, he worked on super-resolution microscopy and its application to soft matter systems. Following his post-doc, he became a PI at the Institute for Basic Science, where he worked on a number of problems, ranging from the hydrodynamics of complex fluids to single-molecule spectroscopy. In 2024, he joined the University of New Mexico as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and a courtesy faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

Selected Publications

• S Talele and JT King. Nonequilibrium reaction cycle of operating pump protein studied with single-molecule spectroscopy. ChemPhysChem, 23, e2022000 (2022).
• SJ Lee, S Talele, JT King. Protein-bath coupling at intermediate timescales. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 12, 10942 (2021).
• SJ Park, A Shakya, JT King. Depletion layer dynamics of polyelectrolyte solutions under Poiseuille flow. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 116, 16256 (2019).
• A Shakya, JT King. Non-Fickian molecular transport in protein-DNA droplets. ACS Macro Lett., 7, 1220 (2018). (supplemental cover)
• JT King, EJ Arthur, CL Brooks III, KJ Kubarych. Crowding induced collective hydration of biological macromolecules over extended distances. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 188 (2014).
• JT King, MR Ross, KJ Kubarych. Ultrafast alpha-like relaxation of a fragile glass forming liquid measured using two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy. Phys. Rev. Lett., 108, 157401 (2012).
• JT King┴, K Nguyen┴, Z Chen. Orientation determination of interfacial β-sheet structures in situ. J. Phys. Chem. B (cover and feature article), 114, 8291 (2010). (┴equal contributions)