Professor Yi Cui2019 Nano Today Award Winner: Professor Yi Cui (Stanford University, USA)
We are delighted to announce that Professor Yi Cui (Stanford University, USA) is the winner of the 2019 Nano Today Award for his seminal contributions on nanomaterials design for energy and environment. The award will be presented to Professor Cui during the 6th Nano Today Conference in Lisbon, where he will also give a plenary lecture entitled: Nanomaterials Design for Energy and Environment.
Yi Cui is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He received a B.S. in Chemistry in 1998 at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) followed by a Ph.D in 2002 at Harvard University. After that, he went on to work as a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley. In 2005 he became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University and in 2010 was promoted with tenure. His current research is on nanomaterials for energy storage, photovotalics, topological insulators, biology and environment. Professor Cui has founded three companies to commercialize technologies from his group: Amprius Inc., 4C Air Inc. and EEnovate Technology Inc. He is a Fellow of Materials Research Society, a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of Electrochemical Society. He is an Associate Editor of Nano Letters. He is a Co-Director of the Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium and a Co-Director of Battery 500 Consortium. Professor Cui is a highly proliferate materials scientist and has published more than 430 research papers. In 2014, he was ranked No.1 in Materials Science by Thomson Reuters as “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds”. His selected awards include: Blavatnik National Laureate (2017), MRS Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience (2015), the Sloan Research Fellowship (2010), KAUST Investigator Award (2008), ONR Young Investigator Award (2008), Technology Review World Top Young Innovator Award (2004).
Every two years Nano Today, the NanoBio Lab and Elsevier in partnership with Materials Today organize the Nano Today Conference which seeks to bring researchers together to exchange ideas on the latest developments in this multidisciplinary field. This year the 6th Nano Today Conference will take place 16th-20th June at the Altis Grand Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal. To register, visit the Nano Today conference website.