HONGJIE DAI

Chair Professor, Department of Chemistry, the University of Hong Kong

 

EDUCATION

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA - Ph.D. in Applied Physics/Physical Chemistry, 1994.

Columbia University, New York, NY - M.S. in Applied Sciences in 1991.

Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China - B.S. in Physics in 1989.

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

(1)         Chair Professor, Department of Chemistry, the University of Hong Kong, September 2023 to present.

(2)         J. G. Jackson and C. J. Wood Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, Stanford University. September 2023 to present.

(3)         J. G. Jackson and C. J. Wood Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University. October 2007 to August 2023.

(4)         Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University. January 2006 to present.

(5)         Associate Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University, September 2002 to 2005.

(6)         Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, September 1997 to August 2002.

(7)         1995 to 1997, Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University. Adviser: Richard Smalley.

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

(1)   Nano Research Award, 2022

(2) Citation Laureate by the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate, 2020

(3)   Member of the US National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 2019.

(4) Foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 2019

(5)   NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, 2017.

(6)   Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 2016.

(7)   Materials Research Society (MRS) Mid-Career Researcher Award, 2016.

(8)   Honorary Chair Professor of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 2015.

(9)   Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, 2010

(10)    Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009.

(11)    The Ramabrahmam and Balamani Guthikonda Award at Columbia University, 2009.

(12)    American Physical Society James McGroddy Prize for New Materials, 2006.

(13)    Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics, 2004

(14)    Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2002

(15)    American Chemical Society Pure Chemistry Award, 2002

(16)    Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2001

(17)    Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, 1999

(18)    Terman Fellowship, Stanford University, 1998

(19)    Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award, 1997

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

(1) Founding Editor and Editor-in-chief, Nano Research, Springer & Tsinghua Univ. Press.

(2) Editorial board member for Nano Lett., Advanced Materials, Small, Nanotechnology, Advanced Functional Materials, Chemical Physics Letter, Applied Physics A.

(3) Advisory board member, Center for Nanotechnology, Rice University.

 

SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS

Scopus data: total publications 409; total citations 174,018. H-index 174.