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. from Georgia Tech in 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Zhong Lin Wang. From 2016 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral research fellow with Prof. Yi Cui at Stanford University. His current research focuses on nanotechnology and bioelectronics for energy, sensing, and therapy applications in the form of smart textiles, wearables, and body area networks.
He published 2 books, 130 journal articles and 85 of them are as first/corresponding authors in Chemical Reviews, Nature Electronics, Nature Energy, Nature Sustainability, Nature Communications, Joule, Matter, and many others. He also filed 14 US patents and licensed 1. His research works were highlighted by Nature and Science 4 times and covered by worldwide mainstream media over 1,000 times in total, including The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and Science Daily. His current h-index is 65 on Google Scholar.
Awards & Honors
2020 Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate
2020 Frontiers in Chemistry, Rising Stars
2020 MINE2020 Young Scientist Excellence Award
2020 Okawa Foundation Research Award
2020 Editorial Board Members, Textiles (an MDPI journal)
2020 Editorial Board Members, Biosensors (an MDPI journal)
2020 Editorial Board Members, Advanced Fiber Materials (a Springer Nature journal)
2020 Editorial Board Members, Smart Materials in Medicine (an Elsevier journal)
2019 The World’s Most Influential Researchers by the Web of Science
2019 Associate Editor of Biosensors and Bioelectronics (an Elsevier journal established in 1985)
2019 Editorial Board Members, Nano-Micro Letters (a Springer journal established in 2009)
2019 Editorial Board Members, Frontiers in Chemistry (IF: 4.155)
2019 Editorial Board Members, Frontiers in Pharmacology (IF: 4.418)
2016 Excellent Undergraduate Mentor Award
2015 National Award for Outstanding Students Abroad
2015 Material Research Society Graduate Student Award
2013 TenCate Protective Fabrics Award
2009 First-Class Graduate Fellowship of HUST
2008 First-Class Graduate Fellowship of HUST
2007 Outstanding Graduate Award of HUST
2006 Award for All-Around Student of HUST
2006 Model Student of Academic Record of HUST
2004 First-Class Academic Scholarship of HUST
2003 National Scholarship of China
Contact Information
Department of Bioengineering
420 Westwood Plz., Room 4121H, Engineering V
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600
Tel: (310) 794-5550 Fax: (310) 794-5956
Email: (Position application please go to junchenlab@gmail.com)