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 78 on Google Scholar.
He published 2 books, 1 book chapter, 200 journal articles, and 110 of them are as corresponding authors in Chemical Reviews, Chemical Society Reviews, Nature Materials, Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Joule, Matter, and many others. He also filed 17 US patents and licensed 1. His research works were highlighted by Nature and Science 7 times and covered by worldwide mainstream media over 1,000 times in total, including NBC, CNN, NPR, ABC, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and Science Daily.
Honors & Awards
2021 Materials Today Rising Star Award
2021 Advanced Materials Rising Star
2021 30 Life Sciences Leaders To Watch by Informa
2021 Materials Thought Leaders by Azom
2021 Highly Cited Researchers in the Web of Science
2021 UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award
2021 Breakthroughs and Discoveries by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block
2021 Vebleo Fellow
2021 IAAM Scientist Medal
2021 Innovating Health Outstanding Young Speaker, NUS
2021 Interstellar Initiative by New York Academy of Sciences
2021 JMCA Emerging Investigators Award
2021 ChemComm Emerging Investigators Award
2021 ACS AEM Early Career Investigators Award
2020 Okawa Foundation Research Award (6 in U.S.)
2020 Highly Cited Researchers in the Web of Science
2020 Altmetric Top 100 (out of 3.4 million works in 2020 across 20 disciplines)
2020 Top 10 Science Stories of 2020 by Ontario Science Centre
2020 ACS Nano Rising Stars Lectureship Award
2020 Chemical Society Reviews Emerging Investigators Award
2020 Nanoscale Emerging Investigators Award
2020 Frontiers in Chemistry, Rising Stars
2020 MINE2020 Young Scientist Excellence Award
2020 The World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University
2019 The World’s Most Influential Researchers by the Web of Science
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
2021 Advisory Board Members, Matter
2021 Early Career Board Members, Nano Letters
2020 Rising Star Editorial Board Members, ACS Nano
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
2019 Editorial Board Members, Frontiers in Chemistry
2019 Editorial Board Members, Frontiers in Pharmacology
2020 Editorial Board Members, Advanced Fiber Materials
2020 Editorial Board Members, Textiles
2020 Editorial Board Members, Biosensors
2020 Editorial Board Members, Smart Materials in Medicine
2020 Editorial Board Members, SmartMat
2021 Editorial Board Members, SusMat