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 the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016, followed by postdoctoral studies at Stanford University. His current research focuses on soft matter innovation for novel bioelectronics. With a current h-index of 105, he was identified to be one of the world's most influential researchers in the field of materials science in Web of Science. 

He has published 2 books, 3 book chapters, 270 journal articles, and 170 of them are as corresponding authors in Chemical Reviews (2), Chemical Society Reviews (2), Nature Materials (2), Nature Electronics (4), Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications (5), Science Advances(2), Joule (3), Matter (10), Advanced Materials (12), ACS Nano (15), 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.