Prof. Dr. Sammy Chan is presently a professor at
the National Central University (NCU), Taiwan, and an honorary professor at the
University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. Prof Chan started his career
in Materials Engineering in England, where he received an Honours BSc(Eng)
degree in Metallurgy from Imperial College and a PhD from the University of
Cambridge. He held professorial positions at different universities, including
National Taiwan University in Taiwan and UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
Prof. Dr. Sammy Chan’s expertise
lies in the areas of materials design, energy materials, corrosion engineering
and materials failure analysis. He publishes extensively in these areas and has
authored and co-authored over 150 papers in international journals and
conferences, and several book chapters on energy materials.
Prof. Dr. Sammy Chan is a Fellow of
the Institute of Materials (UK), Australian Institute of Energy and Materials
Research Society (Taiwan). He serves as a Discipline Expert (Materials
Science), Engineers Australia. He is also a Chartered Scientist and a Chartered
Engineer in the UK. Chan has been listed among the top 2% of the Stanford
University World’s Ranking of all researchers (2021 and Career). He is a
recipient of the Outstanding Research Staff Award, NCU in both 2021 and 2022.
Chan is a devoted educator and received numerous teaching awards, including the
Best Teaching Award, UNSW Faculty of Science (2010); the prestigious UNSW
Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2014), and Outstanding
Teaching Staff Award, NCU (2023).
Prof. Dr. Sammy Chan is a co-editor-in-chief of
Materials Chemistry and Physics (Publisher: Elsevier; Journal Impactor Factor =
4.6)