Rate My Professor Ghim Wei Ho

Professor Ghim Wei Ho is Vice Provost (Academic Affairs) and Provost’s Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She also holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and serves as an associate in the Engineering Science Programme. Her research centers on the development of sustainable smart systems through nanosystems research involving low-dimensional nanomaterials, interfacial interactions, and hybridized functionalities for applications in energy, environment, electronics, and healthcare. She has co-authored more than 200 papers in international refereed journals and was recognized as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in the Cross-Field category for 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Professor Ho earned her BSc and MSc from NUS in 2000 and worked as an engineer at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing in Singapore from 2000 to 2002. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2006, where she was elected a Scholar at Selwyn College and has been a Cambridge Commonwealth Society Fellow since 2006. After postdoctoral research at Cambridge, she joined NUS. Her honors include the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship in 2014, the JCI Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award in Science and/or Technological Development in 2015, the Great Women of Our Time Award in Science & Technology in 2016, the 2025 Nano Energy Award for Energy Conversion, and the 2026 SNIC-AsCA Distinguished Woman Chemist Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and serves as Associate Editor for Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Materials Advances, and EcoEnergy, as well as on the editorial advisory boards of several other journals including Advanced Sustainable Systems and Advanced Materials Technologies.