Prof. Chen was invited to give a talk, Upcycling Food Waste into Useful Products, in the ACS Zero Hunger Summit.
Prof. Chen was invited to give a talk, Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Pretreated Polyethylene-based Ocean-Bound Plastic Waste in Supercritical Water, in the Taipei International Conference on Catalysis.
Prof. Chen was invited to give a talk, Weathering and Degradation of Polymeric Films in Acidic Food and Aqueous Environments: Focus on Surface Effects, in the U.S. Army Research Lab Environmental Films. Workshop.
Prof. Chen was selected by the REMADE Institute to serve as a member for the REMADE Technical Advisory Committee.
Prof. Chen was was invited to give a talk, Investigation of Multilayer Film Structures and their Performance Properties for Meal-Ready-to-Eat Hot Sauce Packaging, in the Research & Development Associates for Military Food & Packaging Systems (R&DA) Spring Meeting.
Prof. Chen joined Communications Engineering (Nature Publishing) as an Editorial Board Member.
Prof. Chen was invited to give a talk, Chemical Recycling of Plastic Waste: Current State-of-the-art and Industrial Applications, in the 3rd Global Symposium on Waste Plastic By AIChE (virtual Webinar).
Prof. Chen joined Scientific Report (Nature Publishing) as an Editorial Board Member.
Prof. Chen led a special issue about converting plastic waste into fuels on Processes. Recruiting guest editor, inviting scholarly manuscripts from worldwide experts in plastic and sustainability area till 15 February 2022.
Prof. Chen was invited to give a talk, Chemical Recycling of Plastic Waste: Current State-of-the-art and Industrial Applications, in the University of Oxford Materials Colloquium Talk (virtual Webinar).
Prof. Chen was invited to give a talk, Biodegradable Mulch Films Produced from Soy-filled Polymer Resins, in ACS Spring Conference (ACS Presidential Symposium: Sustainability: Advances and Applications)
Prof. Chen served as a panelist and talked about diversity in STEM (thanks for the kind invitation by Women Accelerator).
Prof. Chen serves as the guest editor for MDPI Recycling. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022.
Prof. Chen was invited by NATPA (North America Taiwanese Professors’ Association) to serve as a panelist and share her academic job-hunting experience in Academic Job Search Webinar. See Resources for presentation.
Prof. Chen was invited by BTBA (Boston Taiwanese Biotechnology Association) to serve as a panelist and share her academic job-hunting experience in Academia Session – A Reality Check on Becoming Faculty.
Prof. Chen was invited by the REMADE Institute to teach a 2 hr short course Chemical Recycling of Plastic Waste 101. See Teaching for more info.
Prof. Chen serves as co-chairs for AIChE sessions of a) Catalytic Ppcycling of Plastic Waste, and b) Green Chemical Reaction Engineering for Sustainability. The sessions focus on research in the areas of chemical reaction engineering i) with non-conventional solvents, ii) for process intensification, iii) for the recycling of materials, and iv) related to non-conventional energy resources.
Prof. Chen was invited by the US DOE to give a talk in Advancing the Bioeconomy: From Waste to Conversion-Ready Feedstocks Workshop Presentations. See Research for presentation.
Prof. Chen was invited by the REMADE Institute to give the webinar Plastic Waste Valorization for a Circular Economy: Perspective on Chemical Recycling. See Teaching for more info.
Prof. Chen served as Guest Editor of the special issues about plastic waste recycling on Journal of Renewable Materials.
Prof. Chen was hosting Prof. Linda Broadbelt, a recent NAE member and a Professor at Northwestern University, for the 50/50 seminar funded by the NSF Advances program.
Prof. Chen was invited to give a talk in the Innovative Conceptual Engineering Design (ICED) Epic Challenge program. ICED Epic Challenge program is a convention for high school student from the USA this November at Nipmuc Regional High School in Upton, MA.
Prof. Chen and UMASS volunteer students interacted with K-12 students in NH Techfest to advocate UMASS Plastic Engineering.
Prof. Chen serves as the liaison of the River Hawks Scholars Academy, a community to support first-generation college students at UMass Lowell.
Prof. Chen served as the Steering Committee for the 2019 Global Symposium on Waste Plastic host by AIChE in Lexington, Sep 19-20, 2019.
