Announcements
15 October 2024
Interview of Prof. Dr. Jun Chen —Winner of Biosensors 2021 Best Paper Award
Name: Prof. Dr. Jun Chen
Affiliation: Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Research Interests: Soft matter; Condensed matter physics; Soft bioelectronics; Smart textiles; Body area networks; Personalized healthcare; Energy and sustainability
Highly Cited Researchers in the Web of Science (2019, 2020, 2021,2022, 2023, 2024)
We congratulate Prof. Dr. Jun Chen for winning the Biosensors 2021 Best Paper Award with his publication “Wearable Biosensors for Non-Invasive Sweat Diagnostics”.
The following is a short interview with Prof. Dr. Jun Chen:
- Could you briefly introduce yourself to the readers? What is your current research direction and what progress has been made with it?
I am currently an Associate Professor with tenure at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the Department of Bioengineering. Our main focus is on using soft materials innovation to develop novel biosensors for personalized healthcare. One of the very exciting discoveries in our lab has been our recent discovery of a giant magnetoelastic effect in soft matter system and we used it to develop various soft bioelectronics for diagnostics, therapeutics, and energy. This fundamentally new platform technology is intrinsically waterproof, biocompatible, and cost-effective. - Could you please briefly introduce the main content of the winning paper?
We use a type of wearable biosensor for different types of application scenarios, and we also introduce wireless sensors for wearable biosensor analysis. Basically, this is also a type of monitoring application. - Could you describe the difficulties and breakthrough innovations in this research field?
Regarding the overall challenges in the field of wearable biosensors field, how to manage the motion artifacts or other environmental interferences to provide the clinical-grade medical information could be a challenge. - What appealed to you about the journal that made you want to submit your paper? How was your experience submitting to Biosensors in terms of manuscript processing, communications with your editors, etc.?
Biosensors is an international journal constantly publishing high-quality work in the field. In terms of suggestions for the journal, constantly attracting higher-quality manuscripts could be very important or essential to the journal’s development in the future. - Is this still a research interest of yours or have you moved onto a different area?
Yes, this is still one of my major research thrusts. The scope of this journal aligns quite well with my current research focus. - Do you have any advice for aspiring young researchers looking to make a meaningful impact in their respective fields?
Be hard-working, persistent, and be passionate about what you are doing. Certainly, this is generally applicable to all other fields as well if you want to achieve something. In the meantime, do creative research and always think out of the box. - As the winner of this award, is there something you want to express or someone you wish to thank specifically?
Over the past years, I received tremendous support and help from my advisors, my friends, my students, and my family. All of them are very generous, supportive, and with great kindness. - Do you have any suggestions on how Biosensors can be developed to reach a broader audience?
Continue to publish high-quality results in the community. In the meantime, we may seek help from media coverage to report our scientific stories.
