| Office: | CYC-6218 |
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| Phone: | +852 3442-8080 |
| Email: | alexjen@cityu.edu.hk |
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| ORCID ID: | 0000-0002-9219-7749 |
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Provost
Chair
Professor, Department of Materials Science
Chair Professor, Department of Chemistry
Professor Alex Jen, a renowned
scientist and eminent leader, joined City University
of Hong Kong as Provost in December 2016.
Professor Jen received his bachelor's degree from the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in USA. He was the Boeing-Johnson Chair Professor and Chair of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. He also served as Chief Scientist for the Clean Energy Institute endowed by the Washington State Governor.
Professor Jen is a distinguished researcher with a well-cited publication record. He has co-authored >830 publications, given over 500 invited presentations, has >43,000 citations and an H-index of 107, and is co-inventor for more than 50 patents and invention disclosures. His research interests are inter-disciplinary, specializing in organic/hybrid functional materials and devices for photonics, energy, sensors, and nanomedicine. He was named by Thomson Reuters as one of the “Highly Cited Researchers” in the past several years and as one of the "World's Most Influential Scientific Minds" in 2015 and 2016 in the area of materials science.
Being an internationally recognized scholar, Professor Jen has been elected as Fellow by several professional societies including AAAS, MRS, ACS, PMSE, OSA, SPIE, and as an Academician by the Washington State Academy of Sciences. He has also demonstrated capability on technology transfer and fund raising, and is the founder of the Institute of Advanced Materials for Energy (i-AME) of the University of Washington.
Utilizing molecular, polymeric, and biomacromolecular self-assembly to create ordered arrangement of organic and inorganic functional materials for photonics, opto-electronics, nanomedicine, and nanotechnology.
Employing the “molecular engineering” approach to tailor size, shape, sequence, and functionality of organic/hybrid functional materials and explore their applications.
BS,
Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua
University, Hsin-Chu, 1978
Ph.D., Department
of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, 1984
Boeing/Johnson Chair Professor of
Materials Science & Engineering
Professor of
Chemistry
Chief Scientist, Clean Energy
Institute
Director, Institute of Advanced
Materials for Energy
Chair, Dept. of Materials Science &
Engineering, Univ. of Washington, 2007-2016
Director, Institute of Advanced Materials for
Energy, 2011-2016
Director, Institute
for Advanced Materials & Technology, Univ. of
Washington, 2006-2011
Acting Chair,
Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Univ. of
Washington, 2005-2007
Boeing-Johnson
Chair Professor, Dept. of Materials Science &
Engineering, Univ. of Washington, 2000-Present
Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry,
Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA., 1997-1999
Vice President, Optical Materials Division,
ROI Technology, 1995-1996
Group
Leader-Senior Scientist, NLO Materials, EniChem
America, 1990-1994
Project
Leader-Principal Scientist, Advanced Materials
Laboratory, EniChem America, 1988-1990
Research Scientist, Specialty Polymers
Department, Allied-Signal Inc., 1984-1988
•
Patents &
Invention Records: >50
•
Publications: >830
• H-index:
•
Citations: >43,000
Name by
Times Higher Education (THE) as one of the
“Top 10 Researchers in the World Working on
Perovskite Solar Cells”.
Named to The
World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds by
Thomson Reuters, 2015, 2016
Distinguished Alumni Award, College
of Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan,
ROC, 2017
BK21+ Distinguished Professor, Korea
University, 2015-2018
Distinguished Chair
Professor, Materials Science & Engineering,
National Taiwan University, 2013
MRS
Fellow, The Materials Research Society, 2012
Chair Professor, Polymer Science &
Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, 2012
Member, Washington State Academy of Sciences,
2011
ACS Fellow, The American
Chemical Society, 2011
World-Class
University Professor, Korea University, Korea
Research Foundation, Korea, 2009
Honorary
Professor, East China University of Science &
Technology, China, 2009
PMSE Fellow,
The American Chemical Society, Div. of Polymeric
Materials Science & Engineering, 2009
Board of Directors, Washington Technology
Center, Appointed by Governor of Washington State,
2007
Faculty of Research Innovator Award,
College of Engineering, University of Washington,
2007
Changjiang Endowed Chair Professor,
Ministry of Education, China, 2007
OSA
Fellow, The Optical Society of America, 2007
SPIE Fellow, The International Society of
Optical Engineering, 2006
AAAS Fellow,
American Association for the Advancement of Science,
2005
Member of Advisory Board,
Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan,
2002-Present
Boeing-Johnson Endowed Chair,
University of Washington, 1999-Present
Industrial Fellow (rank as full professor),
Northwestern University, 1995-2000
Founder’s Award, ROITech, 1995
Outstanding Achievement Award, EniChem America,
1994
President’s Award, EniChem
America, 1989
Rohm & Hass Research
Fellowship, Dept. of Chemistry, University of
Pennsylvania, 1981
Editor,
IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
Advisory
Board Member, Energy Frontier Research Center,
Univ. of Michigan
Advisory Board
Member, Material Synthesis, Simulation Across
Scales, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Editorial Advisory Board Member, ACS
Chemistry of Materials, NPG-Asia Materials, Journal
of the Experimental Nanoscience
Chair of
the Advisory Board, The Transformative Materials
Initiative, The Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, Richland, WA, 2007-
Board of Directors, The Washington Technology
Center, appointed by the Washington State Governor
Advisory Board Member, College of Arts &
Science, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Advisory Board Member, Institute of
Chemistry, Academic Sinica, Taiwan
