Dr. Wei Chen

Dr. Wei Chen earned his doctorate in materials science from Tsinghua University in Beijing before joining a clean energy research consortium in Zurich as a postdoctoral researcher. He spent five years developing electrolyte materials for next-generation fuel cells before transitioning to science writing — a move driven by his frustration with how rarely significant research reached the people who most needed to understand it. At Discovia, Wei covers hydrogen energy systems, carbon capture technologies, advanced materials for energy storage, and green manufacturing. He writes with the rare advantage of having worked on exactly the kinds of problems he reports on, giving his explanations an authority that pure journalists rarely achieve. He lives in Zurich.