Siu-Wai Chan

Siu-Wai Chan (born 27 February 1958) is a Hong Kong engineer based in the United States. She is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. A 2003 Guggenheim Fellow and 2018 Fellow of the American Physical Society, she studies ceramic engineering. Biography She was born on 27 February 1958 in British Hong Kong.

After working for Bell Labs and Bellcore in New Jersey in the late-1980s, she returned to Columbia Engineering in 1990 and became associate professor, before being promoted to professor of materials science and engineering in 2002. she also used this fellowship for work she did as a visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego. She was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2018 "for observing and understanding the grain boundary dislocation motion in materials, providing a seminal impact on superconducting thin film boundary devices, and inventing a novel ecological synthesis technique of nano-crystals oxides for catalysis applications."