Rate My Professor Yanhou Geng

Yanhou Geng is a Chair Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Tianjin University, where he has served as a professor and doctoral supervisor since December 2015. He previously held positions as a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, from 2003 to 2015. His earlier career includes a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Rochester in the United States from 2000 to 2003, a Humboldt visiting scholarship at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Germany from 1998 to 2000, and visiting scholar roles at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry. Geng earned his bachelor's degree in polymer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1991 and his Ph.D. in polymer chemistry and physics from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1996.

His research focuses on photoelectric functional polymer materials, including high-mobility organic and polymer semiconductor materials for organic thin-film and electrochemical transistors, near-infrared absorbing organic and polymer semiconductors for photodetectors, and methodologies for the synthesis of conjugated polymers. Geng has received numerous honors, such as the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2005, the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program" leading scientific and technological talent award in 2016, the Ministry of Science and Technology young and middle-aged innovative leading talent award in 2013, the State Council special government allowance in 2011, and National Natural Science Second Prizes in 2009 and 2023. He has authored or co-authored hundreds of publications in leading journals, with representative works including papers in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Advanced Materials, and Macromolecules on topics such as direct arylation polycondensation for high-mobility conjugated polymers and n-type thermoelectric polymers. Geng serves in leadership roles, including as Dean of the School of Science at Tianjin University, and contributes to national research projects on high-performance polymer semiconductors and printed organic thin-film transistor materials.