Dr. Lin is co-editor-in-chief for the Journal of Membrane Science,[2] and Journal of Membrane Science Letters.[3] He was Cheung Kong Distinguished Guest Professor of Industrial Catalysis at Tianjin University, Guangbiao Distinguished Guest Professor of Chemical Engineering at Zhejiang University, Piercy Distinguished Visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, and JSPS visiting professor at the University of Tokyo.
Dr. Lin works in the field of inorganic membrane science, separation technologies and energy storage. As of 2019, he has published over 310 papers in chemical engineering and material science journals,[4] and holds 9 patents,[5] and his papers have received over 28000 [google scholar citation,[6] with h-index of 81). Lin has been a technical consultant for membrane, chemical, petroleum and energy utility companies.
Lin received his B.S. (1982) from Zhejiang University in China, M.S. (1985) and his Ph.D. (1988) from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the US, all in chemical engineering. He was a post-doctoral staff member at the University of Twente in the Netherlands (1988–1991). He joined the faculty of chemical engineering at University of Cincinnati as an assistant professor in 1991 and was promoted to full professor in 1998, where he was co-director of the National Science Foundation Center for Membrane Applied Science and Technology. He joined ASU in January 2005 after serving at the University of Cincinnati.
