Eunjeong (Sal) Shin

B.S. Chemistry Bryn Mawr College, 2025

Eunjeong (Sal) was born and raised in Changwon, South Korea. From grade school through high school, she moved back and forth between South Korea and the Philippines, living in the Philippines for about five years. She attended Bryn Mawr College, where she began her first research in Professor Patrick Melvin’s lab, focusing on deoxyfluorination. She contributed to the discovery of a novel pathway that expands access to fluoroformamidines using an SIF deoxyfluorination reagent. She later moved to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she is currently working in the White group on OXO and machine learning applications in chemistry.

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Fun Facts

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• Sally is actually the old name for Sal. She decided to leave the "ly" before going to college.

• Sal hates the cold but still moved to Illinois. 

• Loves trying different charcuterie items and she's into beef sticks/smoked sausages these days.