30 NTU MSE faculty named among the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2026 edition

Twenty-two appear on both single-year and career-long citation impact lists, compared with 17 in the 2025 edition.

Thirty faculty members from NTU’s School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), including colleagues with joint appointments, have been included in the 2026 Stanford/Elsevier World’s Top 2% Scientists database, up from 28 in 2025.

The global database identifies researchers with high citation impact across 20 scientific fields and 174 subfields. Inclusion is based on placement among the top 100,000 researchers by a composite citation score, calculated with and without self-citations, or within the top 2% of a researcher’s subfield.

The database provides a standardised view of citation influence across disciplines, highlighting researchers whose published work is extensively cited within the international scholarly literature.

MSE has 26 faculty members on the single-year citation impact list and 26 on the career-long list. Twenty-two appear on both, bringing this year’s total to 30 unique faculty members.

Research influence across disciplines

The faculty recognised span materials, nanoscience and nanotechnology, biomedical engineering, polymers, energy, chemistry, applied physics, and geochemistry and geophysics.

This breadth reflects the connections between materials science and other disciplines across MSE’s research community. The increase from 17 to 22 faculty on both lists highlights the School’s growing representation across both measures of citation impact.

Faculty recognised in the 2026 edition

Our Faculty on the Two Citation Impact Lists

The single-year list reflects citations received during calendar year 2025, including citations to research published in earlier years. The career-long list considers cumulative citation metrics through the end of 2025.

 

Single-year impact — 26 faculty

Faculty	Subject Field 1	Subject Field 2
Prof Alex Yan Qingyu	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Materials
Prof Ali Miserez	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Materials
Prof Chen Xiaodong	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	General Chemistry
Prof Chen Zhong	Materials	Applied Physics
Prof Chew Sing Yian*	Biomedical Engineering	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Prof Cho Nam-Joon	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Chemical Physics
Prof Hu Xiao	Polymers	Materials
Prof Jason Xu Zhichuan	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Organic Chemistry
Prof Lee Pooi See	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Applied Physics
Prof Liu Zheng	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Materials
Prof Madhavi Srinivasan	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Energy
Prof Ng Kee Woei	Biomedical Engineering	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Prof Nripan Mathews	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Energy
Prof Raju Ramanujan	Materials	Applied Physics
Prof Simon Redfern†	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Applied Physics
Prof Subodh Mhaisalkar	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Applied Physics
Prof Timothy White	Materials	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry
Prof Shirley Meng	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Energy
Assoc Prof Aravind Dasari	Materials	Polymers
Assoc Prof Andrew Grimsdale	Organic Chemistry	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Assoc Prof Hortense Le Ferrand‡	Materials	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Assoc Prof Huang Yizhong	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Materials
Assoc Prof Kedar Hippalgaonkar	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Applied Physics
Assoc Prof Zhao Yang	Chemical Physics	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Nanyang Asst Prof Eason Chen	Materials	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Nanyang Asst Prof Wu Dongshuang	Organic Chemistry	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

 

Career-long impact — 26 faculty

Faculty	Subject Field 1	Subject Field 2
Prof Alex Yan Qingyu	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Materials
Prof Chen Xiaodong	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	General Chemistry
Prof Chen Zhong	Materials	Applied Physics
Prof Chew Sing Yian*	Biomedical Engineering	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Prof Cho Nam-Joon	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Chemical Physics
Prof Hng Huey Hoon	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Materials
Prof Hu Xiao	Polymers	Materials
Prof Jason Xu Zhichuan	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Organic Chemistry
Prof Joachim Loo	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Biomedical Engineering
Prof Lee Pooi See	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Applied Physics
Prof Li Shuzhou	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Physical Chemistry
Prof Liu Zheng	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Materials
Prof Madhavi Srinivasan	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Energy
Prof Ng Kee Woei	Biomedical Engineering	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Prof Nripan Mathews	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Energy
Prof Raju Ramanujan	Materials	Applied Physics
Prof Simon Redfern†	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Applied Physics
Prof Subodh Mhaisalkar	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Applied Physics
Prof Timothy White	Materials	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry
Prof Shirley Meng	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Energy
Assoc Prof Aravind Dasari	Materials	Polymers
Assoc Prof Andrew Grimsdale	Organic Chemistry	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Assoc Prof Hortense Le Ferrand‡	Materials	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Assoc Prof Huang Yizhong	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Materials
Assoc Prof Xue Can	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Organic Chemistry
Assoc Prof Zhao Yang	Chemical Physics	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

Joint appointments with MSE:
* School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
† Asian School of the Environment
‡ School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

About the database

The 2026 edition of the Updated science-wide author databases of standardised citation indicators was published on 7 October 2026 in the Elsevier Data Repository, with John P. A. Ioannidis of Stanford University as its contributor.

Drawing on Scopus data, the database uses a composite citation indicator that incorporates citations, co-authorship, and authorship positions. The 2026 edition is based on a Scopus snapshot taken on 1 August 2026, with citation data through the end of 2025.

Citation indicators offer one perspective on research influence and complement other ways to understand scientific contributions.

Learn more about NTU MSE's Research Impact.

View the database and methodology.