Prof. Bo SHEN

Biography

Prof. Shen received his Bachelor's Degree from Nankai University in China in 2013 and his PhD from Brown University in the U.S. in 2019. From 2019 to 2024, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University, where he focused on “materials genome” studies to explore the Megalibraries of nanomaterials for applications in electrocatalysis and permanent magnets.

Prof. Shen’s research centers on developing combinatorial high-throughput approaches, including nanolithography, screening, modeling, and machine learning, to accelerate materials discovery for applications in clean energy and environmental remediation. He has authored 27 peer-reviewed papers with over 2,700 citations and an H-index of 19 (Google Scholar). His work has appeared in prestigious journals such as Nature Synthesis, Nature Communications, and PNAS. He is the recipient of the International Institute for Nanotechnology Outstanding Research Award. Beyond his university work, he served as a mentor for the Nanotechnology Research and Innovation Bootcamp of the African Materials Research Society.