
Dr. Chen Hangrong is a research fellow of the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), doctor's supervisor and project leader. She is also Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, an expert of the National High-level Personnel Special Support Program and an expert enjoying the special allowance of the State Council. She graduated from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences with a Ph.D. degree in July 2001. Her research is mainly focused on inorganic functional nanomaterials, nano biomedical materials, and environmental/energy catalytic materials. She has published more than 240 SCI academic papers, which have been cited more than 12,000 times, with an h-index of 62. She has been granted more than 30 national invention patents. Additionally, she has participated in the compilation of five Chinese and English monographs and trained more than 30 graduates with master's/doctoral degrees. She has been awarded one Second Prize of State Natural Science Award (2011,2/5) and two First Prizes of Natural Science Award of Shanghai (2008,2/5; 2014,5/5). Her current posts include: Standing Member of the Expert Committee for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging, Chinese Association of Ultrasound in Medicine and Engineering; Deputy Secretary General of the Biomedical Photonics Technical Committee, Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering; and Standing Member of the Nano-Biomaterials Committee, Chinese Society for Biomaterials.