Guohua CHEN

• Chair Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Techonology

Professor Chen received his BEng in Chemical Engineering from Dalian University of Technology. He then obtained MEng and PhD from McGill University.

He started his academic career from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology where he worked for 22 years and also served as the Head of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He was an Associate Vice President (Research Support), Chair Professor of Energy Conversion and Storage, at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2017-2022). He worked as the Chair Professor of Smart Energy Conversion and Storage, at City University of Hong Kong  and served as Dean of School of Energy and Environment (2022-2024). He is now a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and technology in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.

He has published over 350 peer reviewed papers with google citation over 40,000 and h-index of 109. He serves as Editor, Separation and Purification Technology, Editor-in-Chief, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Associate Editors for Energy Materials and Devices, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, Energies.

He is a Fellow of Hong Kong Institute of Engineers, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Hong Kong Academy of Engineering, and Canadian Academy of Engineering. 

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