Dr. Jun Chen is an associate professor with tenure in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016 and completed postdoctoral research at Stanford University. His current research focuses on soft matter innovation for novel bioelectronics. With a current H-index of 125, 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 been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher in the Web of Science (2019-2024), and is also among the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University (2019-2024).
He has published 2 books, 3 book chapters, 380 journal articles, and 280 of them are as corresponding authors in Nature Reviews Bioengineering, Nature Materials, Nature Electronics, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Chemical Engineering, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Reviews, Chemical Society Reviews, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Joule, Matter, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano (20), and many others. He also filed 17 US patents and licensed 1. These works were highlighted by Nature and Science 9 times and worldwide media over 1,200 times in total, including ABC, BBC, NBC, CNN, NPR, VOA, The Wall Street Journal, and Scientific American.