Zhihong Chen facts for kids

Entrance of the Scifres Nanofabrication Laboratory in Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University

Zhihong Chen is a Chinese-American nanoelectronics engineer known for her research on the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University.

Education and career

Chen graduated from Fudan University in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in physics. She went to the University of Florida for graduate study in physics, earning a master's degree in 2002 and completing her Ph.D. in 2003.

After postdoctoral research for IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, she became a permanent research staff member at the center in 2006. She moved to Purdue University as an associate professor in 2010, and was promoted to full professor in 2017.

Recognition

In 2022, Chen was named an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to the understanding and applications of low-dimensional nanomaterials".