Victor Shang-Yi Lin
Bioanalytical, Bioinorganic, & Materials Chemistry.
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Victor S.-Y. Lin, Professor of Chemistry, received his Ph.D. from the
University of Pennsylvania in the end of 1996. After working as a Skaggs
postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Research Institute, he joined the
faculty at Iowa State in the fall of 1999. Dr. Lin is the director of
the Center of Catalysis at Iowa State University. He also serves as the
Program Director of the Chemical and Biological Sciences Program in the
U.S. Department of Energy Ames Laboratory. His research centers on the
design of functional nanoporous materials for biotechnological and
biomedical applications, such as biosensor design, drug delivery, and
gene transfection. His group also specializes in the synthesis of
mesoporous heterogeneous catalysts for various reactions, such as
cooperative catalysis, carbonyl activation, biodiesel production, and
other biorenewable energy applications. Professor Lin has received a
number of awards for his work, including a National Science Foundation
CAREER award in 2002, a LAS award for Early Achievement in
Research/Artistic Creativity in 2004 at Iowa State University, an
Outstanding Technology Development award of the U.S. Federal Laboratory
Consortium in 2005, and the ISU Award for Mid-Career Achievement in
Research in 2008. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the
Advanced Functional Materials, WILEY-VCH.
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