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Guohua
CHEN
陳國華

PhD. McGill University
Chair Professor
Room IAS3023
(852) 2358 8412
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Advanced Materials
Energy and Environment
Research Interests
Chemical Vapor Deposition Method of Polymer Coating
Battery Materials Synthesis and Modification
Drying of Solid for High-value Materials
Electrochemical Technologies for Energy and Environmental Applications
Energy Storage Materials and Devices (Lithium-ion Batteries, Sodium-ion Batteries, Li-S Batteries)
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Professor Guohua CHEN obtained his BEng from Dalian University of Technology in 1984, MEng and PhD from McGill University respectively in 1989 and 1994. He joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as a Visiting Scholar in 1994, and became as an Assistant Professor in 1997, promoted to Associate Professor in 2002, Full Professor in 2008. He worked as the Head of Department, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering during 2012 and 2016. He moved to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as Chair Professor of Energy Conversion and Storage in 2017 and served concurrently as an Associate Vice President (Research Support) during 2017-2021. He served as Dean, School of Energy and Environment (2022-2024), worked as Chair Professor of Smart Energy Conversion and Storage, City University of Hong Kong (2022-2025) .

Professor Chen has over 30 years of working experience in research and development on energy and environment-related projects. He has published more than 370 peer-reviewed journal papers. His research papers have been well cited by peers, with Google Scholar Citation more than 41,000 and an H-index of 109. He also holds three US patents and a dozen of Chinese patents. 

He is the recipient of the inaugural Research Excellence Award, School of Engineering, HKUST, and the winner of the Merit Award for Individual Research, Faculty of Engineering, HKPolyU. He is a Fellow of HKIE, AIChE, Global Academy of Chinese Chemical Engineers, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering. 

He served as the 17th President of the Asian-Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering and is now the Chairman of the World Chemical Engineering Council. He is also the Deputy Director of the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China (CIESC). 

Professor Chen holds key editorial roles, including Editor-in-Chief of Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Editor of Separation and Purification Technology and Batteries, and Associate Editor of Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, and Energy Material & Devices.