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Dr. Jun Chen is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on soft matter innovation for novel bioelectronics and personalized healthcare.
He has published two books and 300 journal articles, with 200 of them being corresponding authors in Chemical Reviews (2), Chemical Society Reviews (2), Nature Review Bioengineering (1), Nature Materials (2), Nature Electronics (6), Nature Biomedical Engineering (1), Nature Communications (6), Science Advances (3), Joule (3), Matter (12), Advanced Materials (12), among others.
He also filed 14 US patents, including one licensed. With a current h-index of 108, Dr. Chen was identified to be one of the world’s most influential researchers in the field of Materials Science in the Web of Science. Beyond research, he is an associate editor of Biosensors & Bioelectronics, Med-X, FlexMat, Textiles, and VIEW Medicine, Advisory/Editorial Board Members of Matter, Cell Reports Physical Science, Materials Today, Materials Today Energy, Nano-Micro Letters, Nano Trends, The Innovation, among others.
Among his many accolades are the V. M. Watanabe Excellence in Research Award, UCLA Faculty Mentor Award, UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award, Georgia Tech Alumni 40 Under 40, Shu Chien Early Career Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, AHA Innovative Project Award, AHA Transformational Project Award, AHA's Second Century Early Faculty Independence Award, NIH UCLA CTSI KL2 Translational Science Award, BBRF Young Investigator Award, Okawa Foundation Research Award, Advanced Materials Rising Star, Materials Today Rising Star Award, ACS Nano Rising Stars Lectureship Award, Chem. Soc. Rev.
Emerging Investigator Award, Nano Research Young Innovator Award, ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award, Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2019/2020/2021/2022/2023, among others.