George Z. Chen FRSC () is a professor of electrochemical technologies at the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh ...

. In 1996–1997, together with

Derek Fray Derek John Fray (born 26 December 1939) is a British material scientist, and professor at the University of Cambridge. Education Fray was educated at Emanuel School, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree followed by a PhD from Imperial Colleg ...

and Tom Farthing, he co-invented the FFC Cambridge process of electrochemical reduction of oxides to metals, where FFC abbreviates the last names of the inventors. Chen graduated from Jiujiang Teacher Training College in 1981 and obtained his MSc degree in

physical chemistry Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mech ...

from

Fujian Normal University Fujian Normal University () is a public university in Fuzhou, China. FNU has been hailed as the Fujian province's "Cradle of teachers." History Tracing its origin back to Fujian Superior Normal School, founded in 1907, Fujian Normal University ( ...

in 1984. He then moved to England and in 1992 defended his PhD at Imperial College,

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...

under the supervision of John Albery. After spending four years as a postdoctoral researcher at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

Leeds University The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed ...

and the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

he became Senior Research Associate (1998), Assistant Director of Research (2001) and Official Fellow (2003) of

Darwin College, Cambridge Darwin College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded on 28 July 1964, Darwin was Cambridge University's first graduate-only college, and also the first to admit both men and wo ...

. In 2003 he assumed the position of reader at the University of Nottingham and in 2009 was promoted to professor.George Zheng Chen
nottingham.ac.uk

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chen, George British materials scientists Academics of the University of Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry Living people Year of birth missing (living people)