For the second consecutive year, a Davidson School of Chemical Engineering professor has been named to the list of Highly Cited Researchers from the Web of Science Group. Dr. Letian Dou, the Charles Davidson Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, is among approximately 6,400 scientists and social scientists who have demonstrated significant influence through publication of multiple papers, highly cited by their peers, during the last decade. Dr. Dou was recognized for his cross-field impact.

Selected researchers have produced multiple highly cited papers and have been found to rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science. The data are taken from 21 broad research fields within Essential Science Indicators (ESI) or across several fields.  Approximately 6,400 researchers are named Highly Cited Researchers in 2020—some 3,900 in specific fields and about 2,500 for cross-field performance. This is the third year that researchers with cross-field impact are identified.

Dr. Dou joined Purdue Chemical Engineering in 2017. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Materials Science and Engineering, and his B.S. in Chemistry from Peking University, Beijing. He held research positions at UC Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/California Research Alliance by BASF at UCLA, and at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dr. Dou’s research interests include solution-processed hybrid materials and nanomaterials for the next generation energy harvesting and optoelectronics devices.

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Source: Dr. Letian Dou, dou10@purdue.edu, (765) 494-4194