Principal Investigator

Dr. Jun Chen is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2016. From 2016 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University. His current research focuses on nanotechnology and bioelectronics for energy, sensing, and therapeutic applications in the form of smart textiles, wearables, and body area networks. His current h-index is 98 on Google Scholar.
He published 2 books, 3 book chapters, 260 journal articles, and 150 of them are as corresponding authors in Chemical Reviews (2), Chemical Society Reviews (2), Nature Materials, Nature Electronics (4), Nature Communications (4), Science Advances, Joule (3), Matter (10), Advanced Materials (12), and many others. He also filed 17 US patents and licensed 1. These works were highlighted by Nature and Science 7 times and worldwide media over 1,200 times in total, including NBC, CNN, NPR, ABC, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and Science Daily.
Honors & Awards
2023 CAB Young Investigator Award
2023 Biosensors Best Paper Award
2023 Nano Research Young Innovator Award
2022 Distinguished Keynote Speakers of the 3rd KAIST Emerging Materials e-Symposium
2022 Thrice Highlighted in the Promotional Video “UCLA Samueli 75 Years in the Making”
2022 Highly Cited Researchers in the Web of Science (1 out of 39 UCLA Faculty Members)
2022 iCANX Young Scientist Award
2022 Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award
2022 Selected Participant for US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering
2022 Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials
2022 ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award
2022 Microsystems & Nanoengineering Young Scientist Award
2022 Advanced Materials Technologies Rising Star
2021 Advanced Materials Rising Star
2021 Materials Today Rising Star Award
2021 Rising Leaders: Recognizing Talent Across The Life Sciences by Informa
2021 Thought Leaders by AZo Materials
2021 Highly Cited Researchers in the Web of Science (1 out of 43 UCLA Faculty Members)
2021 UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows
2021 Breakthroughs and Discoveries by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block
2021 IAAM Scientist Medal
2021 Innovating Health Outstanding Young Speaker, National University of Singapore
2021 Interstellar Initiative by the New York Academy of Sciences
2021 The World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford (Ranked 14638 Globally Across 22 Scientific Fields)
2021 Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigators Award
2021 Chemical Communications Emerging Investigators Award
2021 ACS Applied Energy Materials Early Career Energy Scientists
2020 Okawa Foundation Research Award (7 in U.S.)
2020 ACS Nano Rising Stars Lectureship Award
2020 Chemical Society Reviews Emerging Investigators Award
2020 Highly Cited Researchers in the Web of Science (1 out of 9 UCLA Engineering Faculty Members)
2020 Altmetric Top 100 (out of 3.4 million works for Wearable Sign-to-Speech Translation)
2020 Nanoscale Emerging Investigators Award
2020 Frontiers in Chemistry, Rising Stars
2020 Microsystems & Nanoengineering Outstanding Speakers Award
2020 The World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford (Ranked 20514 Globally Across 22 Scientific Fields)
2019 Highly Cited Researchers in the Web of Science (1 out of 12 UCLA Engineering Faculty Members) 2016 Excellent Undergraduate Mentor Award
2015 National Award for Outstanding Students Abroad
2015 Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award
Journal Recognition
2019- Associate Editor, Biosensors and Bioelectronics (Impact Factor: 12.545)
2022- Associate Editor, Med-X (Springer)
2023- Associate Editor, VIEW Medicine (Wiley)
2023- Associate Editor, Textiles
2022- Advisory Board Members, Matter
2022- Advisory Board Members, Cell Reports Physical Science
2022- Editorial Board Members, Nano Trends
2022- Editorial Board Members, Biomedical Technology
2021- Editorial Board Members, Materials Today Energy
2021- Editorial Board Members, Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X
2020- Editorial Board Members, The Innovation (Cell Press)
2019- Editorial Board Members, Nano-Micro Letters
2023- Editorial Board Members, Brain & Heart
2020- Editorial Board Members, Textiles
2020- Editorial Board Members, Biosensors
2020- Editorial Board Members, Smart Materials in Medicine
2021- Early Career Board Members, Nano Letters
2020- Rising Star Editorial Board Members, ACS Nano