Ady Suwardi is a Vice-chancellor Assistant Professor at the Electronic Engineering department in The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and adjunct assistant professor at NUS MSE. He received his PhD in Materials Science from University of Cambridge, U.K. in 2018, and B.Eng from NTU, Singapore in 2012. His research cuts across fundamental materials, electronic, and thermal properties of sustainable energy materials, with specific focus on thermoelectric materials and devices. He has published ~110 papers, with >40 corresponding/first authored papers in top journals such as Nature Electronics, Advanced Materials, ACS Energy Letters, Materials Horizons, and Nano Energy. To date he has h-index of 36, secured >S$ 1.4 million fundings via 5 grants, and has given >10 invited talks. For his research works, he was awarded Nanoscale Emerging Investigator 2022, Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigator 2022, and winner of EU-ASEAN Youth Sustainable Project Competition 2022.
In terms of academic services, he currently serves as early career editorial board in Materials Today Energy and Youth editorial board in Soft Science and The Innovation Materials. He has refereed for >200 articles in >50 peer-reviewed journals including Science, Nature Energy, and Nature Communications. He is also the recipient of outstanding reviewer award from Journal of Materials Chemistry A in 2020. Beyond academics, he is also a recipient of 2 Singapore National Awards from the Prime Minister Office and Government Gazette for his technical contributions during the COVID-19.
Research Interests
Thermoelectric materials; renewable energy and energy harvesting; electronic materials; thermal management; cooling and heat dissipation; renewable energy; waste upcycling; water-energy nexus.
Selected Publications:
- H.K. Ng#, D. Xiang#, A. Suwardi#, G. Hu, K. Yang, Y. Zhao, T. Liu, Z. Cao, H. Liu, S. Li, J. Cao. Nature Electronics. 2022 Jun 9:1-8. * Highlighted by Tech Xplore, EurekAlert, Phys Org.
- J. Cao, Y. Sim, X.Y.Tan, J. Zheng, S.W. Chien, N. Jia, K. Chen, Y.B. Tay, J.F. Dong, L. Yang, A. Suwardi✉. Advanced Materials. 2022 May;34(19):2110518.
* Highlighted by Nature, PV Magazine, Interesting Engineering, Nanowerk, Eurekalert, Straits Times, and Lianhe Zaobao, RIE Magazine by Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) p25-27. - A. Suwardi, F. Wang, K. Xue, M. Y. Han, P. Teo, P. Wang, S. Wang, Y. Liu, E. Ye and Z. Li, Advanced Materials, 2021, 2102703.
- D. Zhang, X.J.G. Lim, X. Li, K. Saglik, S.F.D. Solco, X.Y. Tan, Y. Leow, W. Zhai, C.K.I. Tan, J. Xu, A. Suwardi✉. ACS Energy Letters 8 (2022): 332-338.
- D. Zhang, W. Y. S. Lim, S. S. F. Duran, X. J. Loh and A. Suwardi✉, ACS Energy Letters, 2022, 7, 720-735.
- J. Cao, J. Dong, K. Saglik,..,J. Xu, J. Wu, F. Wei, Q. Yan, A. Suwardi✉. Nano Energy 2022: 108118.
- J. Cao, X.Y. Tan, N. Jia, J. Zheng, S.W. Chien, H.K. Ng, C.K.I. Tan, H. Liu, Q. Zhu, S. Wang, G. Zhang, A. Suwardi✉. Nano Energy. 2022 Jun 1;96:107147.
- Zhang, D., Ramiah, J., Cagirici, M., Saglik, K., Solco, S. F. D., Cao, J., … & A. Suwardi✉. Materials Horizons, 2024.
- J. Zheng, S.F.D. Solco, C.J.E. Wong, S.A. Sia, X.Y. Tan, J. Cao, .. A. Suwardi✉. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2022, 10, 19787-19796.
* selected for the prestigious 2022 Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigator issue. # selected for 2023 Journal of Materials Chemistry A Lunar New Year collection. - N. Jia, J. Cao, X. Y. Tan, J. Zheng, S. W. Chien, L. Yang, K. Chen, H. K. Ng, S. S. F. Duran and A.Suwardi✉, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021, 9, 23335-23344. * selected for back cover of the issue.
# 2021 JMCA most popular articles (50 out of ~2500)