Title：Next Generation Zinc Batteries for Wide Integration of Energy Storage
Lecturer：Professor Zhongwei Chen, University of Waterloo
Time：9:30 p.m. ,May 15th,2019(Wednesday)
Place：Room 210, Chemistry Building(West)
About the Lecturer：
Dr. Zhongwei Chen is Canada Research Chair (CRC-Tier 1) Professor in Advanced Materials for Clean Energy at the University of Waterloo, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Director of Waterloo Center for Electrochemical Energy and Vice President of International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science (IAOEES). His research interests are in the development of advanced energy materials and electrodes for fuel cells, metal-air batteries, and lithium-ion batteries. He has published 3 book, 9 book chapters and more than 260 peer reviewed journal articles with over 18,000 citations with a H-index of 71 (GoogleScholar). He is also listed as inventor over 30 US/international patents, with several licensed to companies internationally. His research activities are currently supported by a large and highly integrated team, comprising over 30 research associate/postdoctoral fellows and 30 graduate students. In addition, Dr. Chen has already trained more than 80 others through his research program, totaling over 100 highly qualified personnel in all. He was the recipient of the 2016 E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowship and elected as the member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists in 2016, and was also elected as the fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2017, the Rutherford memorial medal from The Royal Society of Canada in 2017, which followed shortly upon several other prestigious honors, including the Ontario Early Researcher Award, an NSERC Discovery Supplement Award, the Distinguished Performance and Research. In 2018, Dr. Chen was ranked as the Global Highly Cited Researchers 2018 by Clarivate Analytics.
