Professor Andrey L. Rogach is currently Chair Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Founding Director of the Centre for Functional Photonics at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK). He obtained his Diploma (1991) and PhD (1995) in Chemistry from Belarusian State University in Minsk, and worked at the University of Hamburg (1995-2002) and the University of Munich (2002-2009) in Germany, where he completed his Habilitation in Experimental Physics.
Professor Rogach’s research focuses on synthesis, assembly and optical spectroscopy of semiconductor and metal nanocrystals, and their use in energy-related and optoelectronic applications. Professor Rogach has been listed among the top 2% of the world's most highly cited scientists since 2020, according to metrics complied by Stanford University. He has authored over 500 scientific publications and has an h-index of 154 {Google Scholar} in these fields. He has over 80,000 citations and has been listed as the highly-cited researcher in Materials Science by Clarivate Analytics for the 7th consecutive years. He has delivered more than 260 presentations at international conferences and 130 invited lectures at universities, and has trained over 20 PhD graduates and numerous postdoctoral fellows.
His distinctions include the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, the Ikerbasque Fellowship of the Basque Country, the Grand Research Excellence Award from CityUHK, and the Walton Award from the Science Foundation Ireland. Professor Rogach holds honourable appointments as an Adjunct Professor at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Chengdu), and Honorary Professor at Xi’An Jiaotong University, Jilin University, and Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School (China). Professor Rogach is a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the Electromagnetic Academy, USA. He has served as an Associate Editor of ACS Nano since 2011.