George Z. Chen FRSC () is professor of electrochemical technologies at the

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. In 1996–1997, together with

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and Tom Farthing, he co-invented the

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of electrochemical reduction of oxides to metals, where FFC abbreviates the last names of the inventors. Chen graduated from Jiujiang Teacher Training College in 1981 and obtained his MSc degree in

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from

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in 1984. He then moved to England and in 1992 defended his PhD at the

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under the supervision of

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. After spending four years as a postdoctoral researcher at the

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and

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he became Senior Research Associate (1998), Assistant Director of Research (2001) and Official Fellow (2003) of

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. In 2003 he assumed a position of reader at the University of Nottingham and in 2009 was promoted to Professor.George Zheng Chen
nottingham.ac.uk

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