In this biography
Quick facts
- Born
- 30 April 1966
- Birthplace
- Taipei, Taiwan
- Country
- Singapore
- Nationality
- Not independently established
- Known for
- Nanomaterials researcher.
- Doctoral institution
- Princeton
- Materials co-authors
- Atsushi Nakahira; Kazunori Kijima
Why this life matters
Her work connects the structure and processing of materials with institutions that pursue applications, while leaving application claims open to actual evidence.
Timeline
Key moments
Doctorate
Chemical engineering, Princeton.
Institutional leadership
IBN executive director.
Recognition
Science co-prize.
Training across research settings
Ying earned a Cooper Union engineering degree in 1987 and a Princeton doctorate in 1991.
She then worked with Herbert Gleiter in Germany and joined MITโs chemical-engineering faculty in 1992.
The path brought materials processing, structure and surface chemistry into the same research programme, rather than treating an application label as a description of how a material works.
A concrete materials collaboration
A 1997 paper with Atsushi Nakahira and Kazunori Kijima investigated hydroxyapatite precursors, crystallinity and sintering. It used microscopy and diffraction alongside a stated composition.
Its characterisation methods address particle features, crystallinity and composition as distinct questions.
That combination motivates the guideโs distinction between counting elements and identifying a structure.
Sources for this section: [5]
Building institutions and pursuing translation
Her CV records leadership of Singaporeโs Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology from 2003 to 2018, followed by a NanoBio Lab appointment in 2018.
In a 2019 interview she discussed bringing research into products and distinguished a spin-outโs early clinical stage from a completed treatment.
Translation includes development, testing and commercial organisation. Announcing a promising system does not eliminate those stages.
Teaching and recognition
The 2021 A*STAR interview describes a Youth Research Program with workshops, seminars and laboratory visits.
She was a co-laureate of the 2023 King Faisal Prize in Science.
Research training and institutional leadership extend the career beyond a list of materials or awards. The dated records support those stages without assigning an undated current office or adopting promotional medical claims.
Quick answers
Frequently asked questions about Jackie Yi-Ru Ying
- Is the materials paper a clinical trial?
- No. The inspected material concerns composition, structure and processing, not a patient-outcome experiment.
- Is every listed research paper claimed as read?
- No. The CV identifies the career; only the specifically scoped original passages were inspected.
Keep exploring
Lives connected to this story
- Susumu Kitagawa
Compare another materials-research career and the distinction between composition and structure.
- Taeghwan Hyeon
Read a different nanomaterials research programme and its collaborators.
Sources and further reading
Explore the evidence
These references support the biography and offer further reading. Official records, first-person accounts and independent reporting provide different perspectives; image records document attribution and licensing.
- 1. Jackie Ying / NanoBio LabJackie Yi-Ru Ying: research and leadership CV
- 2. King Faisal PrizeJackie Yi-Ru Ying: 2023 Science co-laureate
- 3. A*STAR, 5 March 2021Women in Science: Prof Jackie Ying
- 4. Mark Peplow / ACS Central Science5,2019, pp569โ570A Conversation with Jackie Ying
The 2019 interview is a dated statement of development aims and limits, not an updated clinical status report.
- 5. Atsushi Nakahira, Kazunori Kijima and Jackie Ying / Journal of the Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy44(4),1997, pp340โ344Synthesis and Sintering Behavior of Hydroxyapatite by Chemical Process
The English synopsis, formula and selected Japanese methods/captions were inspected. No full translation of the Japanese article or reproduction of its micrographs is claimed.
