Zheng Chen received his Ph.D. at UCLA in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Yunfeng Lu in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His Ph.D. work is mainly related to the design and synthesis of nanostructured materials for electrochemical energy storage devices. From 2013-2016, he was a postdoctoral associate working with Prof. Zhenan Bao in Chemical Engineering and Prof. Yi Cui in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University, where his work focused on functional polymer materials for enhanced energy density, longer cycling lifetime, and improved safety of batteries.​

Chen received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tianjin University in China. He was awarded a Student Science Talented Award (Tianjin University, 2007) and, a Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Ph.D. Students Studying Abroad (2011), the MRS Graduate Student Silver Award (2011), and the Department Outstanding Graduate Award (UCLA, 2012). Chen’s research focuses on material’s development for applications in electrochemical energy, flexible devices, and sustainable environments. He will teach courses across the core Chemical Engineering disciplines.​

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