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Yu-chen Karen Chen-Wiegart

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Associate Professor at Stony Brook University
📍 Stony Brook, New York, United States

Yu-chen Karen Chen-Wiegart is an Associate Professor at Stony Brook University with a joint appointment at Brookhaven National Laboratory. A Northwestern PhD holder, her research focuses on applying state-of-the-art x-ray techniques to study functional materials for energy storage, additive manufacturing, and sustainable manufacturing.

She is actively involved in community and educational outreach, teaching in the Women in Science & Engineering program at Stony Brook and organizing events like "Bring Our Children to Work Day. " She and her husband also serve in their local churchs childrens ministry.

She was a recipient of the prestigious 2022 Frontiers of Materials Award from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS).

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Experience
14 Years
Current Role
Associate Professor
Location
Stony Brook, New York, United States
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Energy Storage Materials
Her research group focuses on developing next-generation energy storage, including sustainable aqueous batteries, using advanced multimodal synchrotron characterization to understand reaction mechanisms.
Synchrotron Techniques
As a former beamline scientist, she is an expert in applying state-of-the-art x-ray imaging and spectroscopic techniques to study materials in real-time (operando).
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Career

Work history

9-2023
Associate Professor
Stony Brook University
1-2017 - 8-2023
Assistant Professor
Stony Brook University
1-2017
Joint Appointment
Brookhaven National Laboratory
10-2016 - 1-2017
Associate Physicist
Brookhaven National Laboratory
6-2014 - 10-2016
Assistant Physicist
Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Education
2007 - 2011
PhD
Northwestern University
2003 - 2007
BS
National Taiwan University
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