DONGMEI DONG, PH.D.
Biography
Dr. Dongmei Dong joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rowan University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 2023. In her academic path, Dr. Dong studied at Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, University of British Columbia, Canada, Université de Bordeaux and Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, France, and completed her Ph.D. in condensed matter physics at Beihang University, China. She worked in the chemistry department at Université de Moncton, Canada, Purdue University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the electrical and computer engineering department at Florida International University, US.
Honors & Awards:
NSF Award from ECCS division-EPMD program, 2025.
Early Career Award from the Sensor Division, Electrochemical Society, 2024.
NSF I-Corps National Award, 2024.
Award from M2FCT Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory through Fuel Cell Office, Department of Energy (DoE), US (one of the five awardees nationwide), 2022.
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Academic and Professional Services:
Serve as STEAM Academy Research mentor for pre-college, 7th-12th grade students, 2024.
Participate in the departmental initiative for Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) Equity Achievement (SEA) Change Project, created by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2023-2025.
Lead organizer for the Symposium M03- Sensors for Energy Production, Conversion and Storage at the 245th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2024.
Serve on the Rowan Materials Science and Engineering PhD dissertation defense committee, 2024
Panelist for the conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (UGWiP) of the American Physics Society (APS) at the University of Pennsylvania, 2024.
Serve on Proposal Review Panel for NSF ECO-CBET Electrocatalysis, 2023.
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Advances in Materials, 2023-2024.
Guest Editor, Journal of Energies, Special Issue on "Thin Films for Renewable Energy Production, Storage and Conversion", 2023-2024.
Co-organizer for the Symposium Topic at the 244th ECS Meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden: M01 - Recent Advances in Sensors Systems, 2023.
Co-organizer for the Symposium Topic at the 243th ECS Meeting, Bosten, MA: M01 - Micro and Nano Systems, 2023.
Oral Session Chair, 242nd ECS Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2022.
Oral Session Chair, American Chemistry Society (ACS) conference, Atlanta, GA, Fall 2021.
Serve as a reviewer for journals: ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfaces; Nanoscale; J. Electrochem. Soci.; Scientific Report; Frontiers in Nanotech.; ECS J. Solid State Sci. & Tech.; ECS Sensors Plus; J. Compos. Sci.; J. Polym.; Appl. Surface Sci.Adv.; Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X; J. Adv. Ceramics; Current Organic Chem.; Pharmaceutics; Appl. Sci. 2020-2024.