Yi Long
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Biography
Yi Long received her PhD in Materials Science at Cambridge University with the full scholarship of Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS), United Kingdom Cambridge Trust and Graduate Scholarship of Selwyn College. She started as a Teaching Fellow at Nanyang Technology University Singapore in 2005 with a focus on Lab-to-Fab technology transfer for industries. She successfully delivered three technologies including one coating process to Seagate Technology, the leading hard-disk company in the world. In 2011, she switched to an academic research center on smart materials and devices. Now she is a Global STEM Scholar and Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her group currently focuses on two main topics; the integration of organic and inorganic smart materials with (1) energy-saving applications, and (2) novel advanced functional devices. She has received several awards including the Government's Global STEM Professorship Scheme Hong Kong 2023, Winner for the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2022 in Engineering, GreenAwards Top 3 London 2022 and TechnologyTechConnect Innovation Washington 2016. She is a Fellow of the 九州影院.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Materials Horizons
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