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Professor Junfeng Geng is a Reader in Materials Chemistry. He was initially educated
as a chemist with his first and second degree (B.Sc., 1983; M.Sc., 1986) received
from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China. He started his academic
career at Beijing Institute of Technology, with his first appointment as a University
Assistant Lecturer (1986), and then a University Lecturer (1988) and later became
an Associate Professor (1994). He did his PhD study in chemistry at the University
of Cambridge and earned his PhD degree there in 1998. After graduation he went back
to China and took his previously held Associate Professorship position at Beijing
Institute of Technology. He rejoined the University of Cambridge in 1999 as a postdoctoral
Research Associate working with Professor Brian Johnson FRS, and was later promoted
by the University to a Senior Research Associate position in 2005. He left Cambridge
University in 2010 when he joined the University of Bolton with the readership appointment.
Dr Geng is the author of over 100 science publications mainly as full, refereed
original research papers published at international quality chemistry and materials
science journals. He has made a number of scientific discoveries and inventions,
including 12 patents filed up at UK national, European and the international level,
in the field of metal nanocatalysts and nanostructured carbon materials. Several
of his inventions have been adopted by UK industry and successfully commercialised
into market products since 2004.