We seek candidates with a strong expertise in bioengineering, biomaterials, biology, or biomedical sciences. A Ph.D. degree in bioengineering, polymer science, materials science & engineering, chemical engineering or other related fields is desired. Excellent written English and oral communication skills are required.
We look for highly motivated students with a solid scientific background in one of the following areas: engineering, physics, chemistry, materials science, and biological sciences. The Chen lab has a highly interdisciplinary team with students coming from various departments and graduate programs including:
You may apply to any of these graduate programs for your PhD study.
We always welcome outstanding undergraduate researchers to join our lab. The Chen lab has a group of dedicated undergraduate researchers working along with our postdocs and graduate students on cutting-edge research projects. In the end, many of our undergraduate researchers are co-authors of journal papers and they continue on to pursue graduate study at UCSD or in other top graduate programs. We are looking for undergraduate researchers in:
We also look for undergraduate software engineers to maintain and develop 3D bioprinters in the lab and contribute to AI/Machine Learning projects.
If you are interested in joining our research group, please e-mail your CV to Prof. Chen at: shc064@ucsd.edu