Professor Andrey L. Rogach is currently Chair Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Founding Director of the Centre for Functional Photonics at City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He obtained his Diploma (1991) and PhD (1995) in Chemistry from Belarusian State University in Minsk, and worked at the University of Hamburg (1995-2002) and the University of Munich (2002-2009) in Germany, where he completed his Habilitation in Experimental Physics.
Professor Rogach’s research focuses on synthesis, assembly and optical spectroscopy of semiconductor and metal nanocrystals, and their use in energy-related and optoelectronic applications. He has authored over 500 scientific publications and has an h-index of 132 {Google Scholar} in these fields. He has over 60,000 citations and is ranked as a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics) – Cross-Field 2018 & 2019 and Material Science 2020 & 2021. He has delivered more than 260 presentations at international conferences and 130 invited lectures at universities, and has trained over 20 PhD graduates and numerous postdoctoral fellows.
His distinctions include the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, the Ikerbasque Fellowship of the Basque Country, the Grand Research Excellence Award from CityU, and the Walton Award from the Science Foundation Ireland. Professor Rogach holds honourable appointments as an Adjunct Professor at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Chengdu), and Honorary Professor at Xi’An Jiaotong University, Jilin University, and Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School (China). Professor Rogach is a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the Electromagnetic Academy, USA. He has served as an Associate Editor of ACS Nano since 2011.