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Dr. Jen is currently the Boeing-Johnson Chair Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He is also a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Thrust Leader of Electro-optic Materials & Devices in the new NSF-funded Science & Technology Center on Materials and Devices for Information Technology.
He received his Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 under the tutelage of Professor Michael Cava. He started his career as a Research Chemist at Allied-Signal Inc., (1984-1988) where he was responsible for the discovery of several classes of processible and thermally stable conducting polymers for opto-electronic applications. In 1988, he joined Enichem America Inc. as a Principal Scientist and established the nonlinear optical (NLO) materials program in the company. He moved to ROI Technology in 1995, where he was Vice President of materials. In 1997, he joined Northeastern University as an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, moving to the University of Washington at Seattle in 1999.
His research interests are focused on the design, synthesis and characterization of novel conjugated materials, NLO dendrimers, highly fluorinated polymers, self-assembled monolayers and block copolymers, and hybrid materials. He has co-authored more than 250 papers and 30 patents on topics related to materials chemistry and devices. | 