Dr. Jerry Y.S. Lin is a Regents' Professor of Chemical Engineering in School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy at the

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

Tempe, Arizona , settlement_type = City , named_for = Vale of Tempe , image_skyline = Tempeskyline3.jpg , imagesize = 260px , image_caption = Tempe skyline as se ...

, US. He publishes papers under the names “Y.S. Lin” or "Jerry Y.S. Lin". From 2006 to 2009, he served as the

Chemical Engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials int ...

Department Chair at Arizona State University, and now directs the Membrane and Energy Laboratory at ASU.

Career

Dr. Lin is co-editor-in-chief for the ''

Journal of Membrane Science The ''Journal of Membrane Science'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, established by Harry Lonsdale, covering research on membrane permeation, selectivity, formation, structure, fouling, processing and application. The editor-in-chief is Jerry ...

'', and '' Journal of Membrane Science Letters''. He was Cheung Kong Distinguished Guest Professor of Industrial Catalysis at

Tianjin University Tianjin University (TJU, ), formerly Peiyang University (), is a national public research university in Tianjin, China. The university was established in 1895 by Guangxu Emperor's royal charter to be the first university of China. It is now fun ...

, Guangbiao Distinguished Guest Professor of Chemical Engineering at

Zhejiang University Zhejiang University, abbreviated as ZJU or Zheda and formerly romanized as Chekiang University, is a national public research university based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. It is a member of the prestigious C9 League and is selected into the na ...

, Piercy Distinguished Visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, and JSPS visiting professor at the University of Tokyo. Dr. Lin works in the field of inorganic membrane science, separation technologies and energy storage. As of 2019, he has published over 310 papers in chemical engineering and material science journals, and holds 9

patents A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A p ...

, and his papers have received over 28000 [google scholar citation, with h-index of 81). Lin has been a technical consultant for membrane, chemical, petroleum and energy utility companies. Lin received his B.S. (1982) from

in China, M.S. (1985) and his Ph.D. (1988) from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the US, all in chemical engineering. He was a post-doctoral staff member at the University of Twente in the Netherlands (1988-1991). He joined the faculty of chemical engineering at

University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati) is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1819 as Cincinnati College, it is the oldest institution of higher education in Cincinnati and has an annual enrollment of over 44,00 ...

as an assistant professor in 1991 and was promoted to full professor in 1998, where he was co-director of the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

Center for Membrane Applied Science and Technology. He joined ASU in January 2005 after serving at the University of Cincinnati.

Awards

*NSF Career Award (1995) *Cheung Kong Scholar (2001) *

AIChE The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is a professional organization for chemical engineers. AIChE was actually established in 1908 to distinguish chemical engineers as a profession independent of chemists and mechanical engineers ...

Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology (2009) for "his sustained fundamental research in advancing inorganic

membrane A membrane is a selective barrier; it allows some things to pass through but stops others. Such things may be molecules, ions, or other small particles. Membranes can be generally classified into synthetic membranes and biological membranes. B ...

science for gas separations, and pioneering work on high temperature adsorption separation technologies" *Fellow of

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

(AAAS) (2009) *Regents’ Professor, Arizona State University (2012) *Fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) (2013) *Fellow of North American Membrane Society (NAMS)(2020) *

Gerhold Award (2021) Lin co-chaired the 2013 and 1998 North American Membrane Society Annual Meetings, the 1994 MRS Symposium on Materials for Separation Technology, and 2001 ACS Symposium on Advanced Membrane Materials. He was the conference chairman of the 2004 International Conference on Inorganic Membranes and chair of the 2010 Gordon Research Conference on Membrane Materials and Processes.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lin, Jerry American chemical engineers Living people Year of birth missing (living people)