George Zheng Chen

Biography

George Chen (CChem, FRSC, FRSA, FIMMM) received his Teaching Diploma (Jiujiang Teacher Training College, now Jiujiang University) in 1981, MSc (Fujian Normal University) in 1985, and PhD (University of London) and DIC (Diploma of Imperial College) in 1992. After postdoctoral research in the Universities of Oxford (1992) and Leeds (1994), he moved to the University of Cambridge (1996), taking up positions of Senior Research Associate (1998), and Assistant Director of Research (2001). In Cambridge, he was awarded the Schlumberger Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship (2000) and elected to Official Fellow (2003) of Darwin College. He joined the University of Nottingham as Reader in 2003, and was promoted to Professor in 2009. He was also appointed as guest professor or similar visiting positions in other institutions, such as specially invited professor of University of Mediterranee (2007) and Wuhan University (2000-2010), and senior academic visitor of Fudan University (2014-2016). Currently he is a Specially Invited Professor of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Guest Research Fellow of Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Honorary Professor of Wenzhou University. Since July 2017, he has been appointed Li Dak Sum Chair Professor of Electrochemical Technologies in the UNNC. Prof. Chen has undertaken various research projects funded by e.g. the EPSRC, Royal Society, MoST (China), MoSTI (Malaysia), E.ON and Ningbo Municipal Government, with the outputs being either documented in over 600 journal, conference and patent publications, or developed by the industry (e.g. The FFC Cambridge Process by Metalysis, and Supercapattery by E.ON). He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the TMS Reactive Metals Technology Award (2001, 2004), the Royal Society Brian Mercer Feasibility Award (2007), the E.ON International Research Award (2008), the Inman Medal (2014), and Distinguished Expert of Zhejiang Province (2015). His ORCID is 0000-0002-5589-5767. On 01 August 2017, Web of Science and Google Scholar reported his h­-index to be 52 and 60, respectively.

Research Interest

chemical thermodynamics, structural and functional materials, and process engineering