City University of Hong Kong
The Semiconductor and Metal Nanocrystals Group
City University of Hong Kong
The Semiconductor and Metal
Nanocrystals Group

Prof. Andrey Rogach

Dr habil Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Foreign Member, Academia Europaea (MAE)

Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor in Photonics Materials
Founding Director of the Centre for Functional Photonics (CFP)

Research Interests

Prof. Andrey Rogach

Using the colloidal chemistry approaches we synthesize semiconductor and metal nanorystals of variable sizes, shapes and compositions, tuning the emission of semiconductor nanocrystals and surface plasmon resonances of metal nanoparticles through the visible and near-IR spectral range.

Colloidal nanocrystals, with their variable surface chemistry determined by a rich choice of capping ligands are ideal building blocks for fabrication of different hybrid nanostructures. We apply optical spectroscopy to study energy transfer and charge separation in these nanostructures and look for different applications of semiconductor and metal nanocrystals such as light-emitting devices and photodetectors.

Profile

1991
Diploma (with honors) in Chemistry from the Belarusian State University in Minsk (Belarus)
1995
PhD in Physical Chemistry from the Belarusian State University in Minsk (Belarus) on “Formation and properties of silver nanoparticles in different media”
1995–2002
Research Scientist, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Hamburg (Germany)
2002–2009
Lead Scientist, Photonics and Optoelectronics Group, Physics Department & Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany)
2005–2006
SFI Walton Visiting Professor, School of Physics and Department of Clinical Medicine, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
2008–now
Adjunct Professor at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
2009
Habilitation in Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany) on “Light emission and harvesting with semiconductor nanocrystals: Synthesis, spectroscopy and applications”
2009–now
Professor, Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong
2010–now
Founding Director of the Centre for Functional Photonics (CFP) at City University of Hong Kong
2011–now
Associate Editor, ACS NANO
2012–now
Chair Professor of Photonic Materials, Department of Physics and Materials Science at City University of Hong Kong
2013, 2015
Visiting Professor, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
2017–now
Chair Professor of Photonic Materials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
2021–now
Foreign Member, Academia Europaea (MAE)
2022–now
Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor in Photonics Materials

Achievements

  • >550 publications with a total number of (Google Scholar) citations exceeding 78000 (November 2024)
  • h-index of (Google Scholar) citations: 147
  • Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics: 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024—Cross-Field; 2020, 2021, 2022 —Materials Science)
  • RGC Senior Research Fellowship (Hong Kong, 2023)
  • Yeung Kin Man Chair Professorship in Photonics Materials (CityU, 2022)
  • The Croucher Senior Research Fellowship (Hong Kong, 2019)
  • Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation (Germany, 2018)
  • The President Award, City University of Hong Kong (2017)
  • Ranked 51st among top 100 Materials Scientists in the World (Clarivate, 2011)
  • Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, USA (since 2014)
  • Walton Award of the Science Foundation Ireland (2005)
  • Honorary Professor, Xi'An Jiaotong University, Jilin University, and Peking University in Shenzhen (China)

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