Heng-Yong Nie

Heng-Yong Nie received the bachelor’s degree in engineering (solid state devices) from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 1984, and the master’s degree in engineering (electronic materials) and the Ph.D. degree in engineering (materials science) from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, in 1988 and 1992, respectively. He worked as a National Institute Postdoctoral Fellow with the National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Tsukuba, from 1992 to 1995 and a Research Associate with the Yokohama Research Center of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation from 1995 to 1997. He joined Surface Science Western (SSW) in 1997. He is currently a Research Scientist with SSW, The University of Western Ontario, Canada, and also an Adjunct Research Professor with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Western Ontario. In addition to providing consultancy to industrial partners on failure analyses related to surface chemistry and processing, his research focuses are in developing analytical approaches to studying soft materials, mainly using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry and atomic force microscopy. He carries out research on formation mechanisms of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on metal oxides and their applications in surface engineering.