About
Shi En Kim (she usually goes by Kim) is a Malaysian-born freelance science writer and a Popular Science’s spring 2022 editorial intern. She writes broadly about different topics, from the wacky uses of spider webs—by both humans or spiders themselves—to garbage collectors in outer space.
Experience
Kim joined PopSci as an editorial intern in spring 2022. Previously, she freelanced for outlets such as National Geographic, Scientific American, Hakai Magazine, and Slate, among others. In the summer of 2021, she was a AAAS Mass Media Fellow at Smithsonian Magazine. Kim likes to cover any topic that sparks her fancy, from the natural world to the latest cutting-edge technologies that might shake up modern society. Nevertheless, she’s particularly drawn to stories that have strong community ties, and that unfold a little closer to her motherland, Malaysia.
Education
Kim graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. She is in her final year of her PhD program in molecular engineering at the University of Chicago. It was in graduate school when she decided to pivot from discovering new science in the lab to writing about it for a general audience.
