Prof. TAN Chaoliang (譚超良)

Dr. Chaoliang Tan is an Associate Professor (Tenured) in the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) with a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering of City University of Hong Kong (CityU), HKSAR, China. He received his PhD degree in Materials Science from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) with Prof. Hua Zhang in 2016. After working as a Postdoc Research Fellow in the same place for about one year, then he worked as a Postdoc Research Fellow in Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley with Prof. Ali Javey for two years. He started his independent career as an Assistant Professor at CityU EE in 2020. He was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of The University of Hong Kong from 2023 to 2024 before he moved back to CityU EE. His current research interests are highly interdisciplinary including 2D materials, electronics, optoelectronics, neuromorphic devices, biomaterials and nanomedicine. He has authored or co-authored over 200 SCI papers (38 ESI Highly Cited Papers) on journals like Nature (1), Nat. Nanotechnol. (1), Nat. Mater. (1), Nat. Chem. (1), Nat. Catal. (1), Nat. Rev. Mater. (1), Nat. Rev. Chem. (1), Nat. Commun. (3), Chem. Rev. (2), Chem. Soc. Rev. (6), J. Am. Chem. Soc. (12), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (12), Adv. Mater. (31), etc. The total citation of his published papers is over 34,800 with a H-index of 87. Among them, more than 100 are first-authored or corresponding-authored papers, including Nat. Nanotechnol., Nat. Rev. Mater., Chem. Rev., Chem. Soc. Rev., Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., ACS Nano, Nano-Micro Lett., Small and Appl. Phys. Lett. He has been elected as a Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM) in 2024. He has been listed as the “Highly Cited Researcher” (Clarivate Analytics) in the last seven years (since 2018) as well as “Top 2% Scientists in the world” by Stanford University in last five years (since 2020). He also received the NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Fund (HK & Macau) in 2021. He serves as an Associate Editor of Smart Materials and Devices (Since 2024). He sites on the Editorial Board of Science Bulletin (since 2023), Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica (since 2022), Nanomaterials (since 2023) and Energies (since 2021).