Prof. Chih-Jen Shih

Prof. Dr. Chih-Jen Shih

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, MIT (USA)

Chih-Jen was born in Taiwan in 1980. He received his bachelor and master degrees in chemical engineering from National Taiwan University, focusing on phase-field modeling in the Chung-Wen Lan Lab. In 2014, he obtained his PhD degree in chemical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, under supervision of Profs. Michael Strano and Daniel Blankschtein. After one-year postdoctoral reseach in the Zhenan Bao research group at Stanford University, he was appointed as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zurich in May 2015.

Chih-Jen's research focuses on morphology, dynamics, molecular forces, and transport phenomena at nanomaterials interfaces. His interest ranges from fundamental understanding of how dielectric screening of atomically thin nanomaterials influences the movement and interactions of charges, excitons, and molecules near interfaces, to application-motivated studies aimed at developing new engineering strategies to control over the interplay of these mechanisms, towards new technological opportunities in optoelectronics, sensors, and actuators.

Chih-Jen has been recognized by a number of awards after being an independent PI as follows:

ERC Starting Grant (2019) by the European Research Council.  

Ruzicka Prize (2017) by the Swiss Chemical Society.

Victor K. LaMer Award (2017) by the American Chemical Society.

 

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