Nguyen Thuc Quyen is the Director of the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids (CPOS) and the professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Prof. Nguyen Thuc Quyen received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1997, 1998, and 2001, respectively. Her thesis research focused on processing and photophysics of conducting polymers using ultrafast spectroscopy under the supervision of Professor Benjamin Schwartz. She was a research associate in the Department of Chemistry and the Nanocenter at Columbia University working with Professors Louis Brus and Colin Nuckolls on molecular self-assembly, nanoscale characterization and devices. Nguyen Thuc Quyen also spent time at IBM Research Center at T. J. Watson (Yorktown Heights, NY) working with Richard Martel and Phaedon Avouris on molecular electronics. Prof. Nguyen Thuc Quyen joined the faculty of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at UCSB in July 2004. She is co-authored over 225 publications that received over 18,500 citations. She gave over 240 plenary/invited/lectures at universities, companies, and international conferences. In addition, Prof. Quyen is a Scientific Editor of the Materials Horizons and a member of the Editorial Board of ACS Energy Letters, ChemPlusChem, Advanced Functional Materials, and Journal of Advanced Materials and Devices.
During her career, Prof. Nguyen Thuc Quyen is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the 2010 National Science Foundation American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellowship, the 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, the 2008 Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, the 2007 Harold J. Plous Memorial Award and Lectureship, the 2006 National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Award and the 2005 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. Moreover, in 2015, she was rewarded with Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for Senior Scientists. Especially, Prof. Nguyen Thuc Quyen was among the World’s Most Influential Minds in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, not to mention Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers in Materials Science by Clarivate Analytics and Thomson Reuters.
