Professor Julia Chan (B.S. Chemistry, Baylor University; Ph.D. Chemistry, University of California at Davis) began her faculty appointment at Louisiana State University Fall 2000-2013 and University of Texas at Dallas Fall 2013-2021, after spending two years as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory. In 2022, she returned to Baylor University along with her research group and the lab’s current research efforts is focused on synthesis, crystal growth, and characterization of novel quantum materials. She has been appointed as the Tim and Sharalynn Fenn Family Endowed Chair in Materials Science.
Prof. Chan has published over 220 peer-reviewed journal articles and given over 150 invited talks. She has graduated 21 Ph.D. students and has mentored over 40 undergraduates in her laboratory.
Her selected awards include the NSF Career Award, American Crystallographic Association Margaret C. Etter Early Career Award, Baylor University Outstanding Alumni Award, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Iota Sigma Pi Agnes Fay Morgan Award, American Chemical Society Exxon Mobil Faculty Fellowship in Solid State Chemistry, and one of 12 Profiled in 2002 C&E News series on “Women in Chemistry”, highlighting women making an impact in the chemical sciences. In 2019, she received the Wilfred T. Doherty Research & Service Award from the DFW Section of the American Chemical Society. In 2020, She was awarded the American Chemical Society Southwest Research Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of the Field of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Awarded in 2021).
She has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of Chemistry of Materials and Inorganic Chemistry, and editor for Journal of Alloys and Compounds, and currently a Deputy Editor for Science Advances (AAAS). In 2020, on behalf of the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she was elected to the rank of AAAS Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for distinguished contributions to the field of crystal growth of highly correlated quantum materials.
August 2022