2016            南京工业大学，先进化学制造研究院，教授，博导，青年千人  
2011-2016    新加坡南洋理工大学，化学与生物化学系，副教授  
2006-2011    新加坡南洋理工大学，化学与生物化学系，助理教授  
2005-2006    康奈尔大学，博士后  
1998-2004    耶鲁大学，博士  

1993-1998    中国科学技术大学，学士

纳米结构合成与机理：纳米颗粒在胶体溶液里的组装；聚合物和纳米颗粒的共组装；双面纳米颗粒的合成；手性纳米结构的形成及机制；纳米圈的合成及其主动的构型转变；核壳及空心结构的合成。  
纳米材料应用：

表面等离子共振或荧光传感，药物释放，复合材料，数据存储磁性材料。

学术成绩   

陈虹宇教授研究小组围绕纳米结构的设计与构建，尤其是胶体溶液中复合纳米粒子的合成与组装开展了一系列深入的探索与研究工作，在国际上具有领先地位。在独立工作的9年里，以通讯作者在NatureCommunications, JournaloftheAmericanChemicalSociety, AngewandteChemie-InternationalEdition, ChemicalSocietyReviews, AccountsofChemicalSociety, AdvancedMaterials等国际期刊上发表SCI论文发表30多篇，总引用数4600多次，H指数38。  
在教学上，陈教授注重素质教育。他的第一个博士生，陈涛，现在是中国科学技术大学的青年千人正教授。他的研究组训练的博士生和博士后中，共有9位在国内各大学任教。

代表著作
1. Yuhua Feng, Yawen Wang, Jiating He, Xiaohui Song, Yee-Yan Tay, Huey Hoon Hng, Xing Yi Ling, and Hongyu Chen*, “Achieving Site-Specificity in Multistep Colloidal Synthesis”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015, 137, 7624–7627. 
2. Yawen Wang, Jiating He, Cuicui Liu, Wen Han Chong, and Hongyu Chen*, "Thermodynamics versus Kinetics in Nanosynthesis", Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2015, 54, 2022–2051. 
3. Yihan Zhu, Jiating He, Cheng Shang, Xiaohe Miao, Jianfeng Huang, Zhipan Liu, Hongyu Chen*, and Yu Han*, "Chiral Gold Nanowires with Boerdijk-Coxeter-Bernal Structure", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014, 136,12746-12752. 
4. Jiating He, Weijie Ji, Lin Yao, Yawen Wang, Bahareh Khezri, Richard D. Webster, and Hongyu Chen*, "Strategy for Nano-Catalysis in a Fixed-Bed System", Advanced Materials, 2014, 26, 4151-4155. 
5. Hong Wang, Xiaohui Song, Cuicui Liu, Jiating He, Wen Han Chong, and Hongyu Chen*, "Homo- and Co-polymerization of Nanoparticles", ACS Nano, 2014, 8, 8063–8073. 
6. Hang Sun, Jiating He, Jiangyan Wang, Shuang-Yuan Zhang, Cuicui Liu, Thirumany Sritharan, Subodh Mhaisalkar, Ming-Yong Han, Dan Wang*, and Hongyu Chen*, "Investigating the Multiple Roles of Polyvinylpyrrolidone for a General Methodology of Oxide Encapsulation", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2013, 135, 9099-9110. 
7. Wen Han Chong, Lip Ket Chin, Rachel Lee Siew Tan, Hong Wang, Ai-Qun Liu*, and Hongyu Chen*, "Stirring in Suspension: Nanometer-sized Magnetic Stirbars", Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2013, 52, 8570-8573. Highlighted in Nature Nanotechnology, in C&E News with video; and in wiley news and nano werk. VIP. 
8. Jun Xu, Yawen Wang, Xiaoying Qi, Cuicui Liu, Jiating He, Hua Zhang, and Hongyu Chen,* " Preservation of Lattice Orientation in Coalescing Imperfectly Aligned Gold Nanowires by a Zipper Mechanism", Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2013, 52, 6019-6023. 
9. Hong Wang, Liyong Chen, Yuhua Feng, and Hongyu Chen*, "Exploiting Core–Shell Synergy for Nanosynthesis and Mechanistic Investigation", Accounts of Chemical Research, 2013, 46, 1636-1646. 
10. Yong Wang, Jun Xu, Yawen Wang, and Hongyu Chen,* "Emerging Chirality in Nanoscience", Chemical Society Reviews, 2013, 42, 2930-2962. 
11. Alexander Urban, Xiaoshuang Shen (co-1st author), Yumin Wang, Nicolas Large, Wang Hong, Mark W. Knight, Peter Nordlander,* Hongyu Chen,* and Naomi J. Halas,* "3-D Plasmonic Nanoclusters", Nano Letters, 2013, 13, 4399–4403. 
12. Liyong Chen, Suzhu Yu, Hong Wang, Jun Xu, Cuicui Liu, Wen Han Chong, and Hongyu Chen,* "General Methodology of Using Oil-in-Water and Water-in-Oil Emulsions for Coiling Nanofilaments", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2013, 135, 835-843. 
13. Hong Wang, Liyong Chen, Xiaoshuang Shen, Liangfang Zhu, Jiating He, and Hongyu Chen,* "Unconventional Chain Growth Mode in the Assembly of Colloidal Gold Nanoparticles", Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2012, 51, 8021–8025. VIP paper, Highlighted as the back cover. 
14. Hang Sun, Xiaoshuang Shen, Lin Yao, Shuangxi Xing, Hong Wang, Yuhua Feng, and Hongyu Chen,* "Measuring the Unusually Slow Ionic Diffusion in Polyaniline via Study of Yolk-Shell Nanostructures", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012, 134, 11243–11250. 
15. Yuhua Feng, Jiating He, Hong Wang, Yee Yan Tay, Hang Sun, Liangfang Zhu, and Hongyu Chen,* “An Unconventional Role of Ligand in Continuously Tuning of Metal–Metal Interfacial Strain”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012, 134, 2004–2007. 
16. Yong Wang, Qingxiao Wang, Hang Sun, Weiqing Zhang, Gang Chen, Yawen Wang, Xiaoshuang Shen, Yu Han, Xianmao Lu, and Hongyu Chen,* “Chiral Transformation: from Single Nanowire to Double Helix”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, 133, 20060-20063. 
17. Yi Jian Wong, Liangfang Zhu, Wei Shan Teo, Yan Wen Tan, Yanhui Yang, Chuan Wang,* and Hongyu Chen,* “Revisiting the St?ber Method: Inhomogeneity in Silica Shells”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, 133, 11422–11425. 
18. Yong Wang, Gang Chen, Miaoxin Yang, Georg Silber, Shuangxi Xing, Li Huey Tan, Feng Wang, Yuhua Feng, Xiaogang Liu, Shuzhou Li, and Hongyu Chen,* "A systems approach towards the stoichiometry-controlled hetero-assembly of nanoparticles", Nature Communications, 2010, 1, Article number: 87, DOI:10.1038/ncomms1089. 
19. Jun Xu, Hong Wang, Cuicui Liu, Yaimei Yang, Tao Chen, Yawen Wang, Feng Wang, Xiaogang Liu, Bengang Xing,* and Hongyu Chen,* “Mechanical Nano-Springs: Induced Coiling and Uncoiling of Ultrathin Au Nanowires”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010, 132, 11920-11922. Highlighted in RSC Chemistry World, ACS Noteworth Chemistry, and Nature Asia. 
20. Shuangxi Xing, Yuhua Feng, Yee Yan Tay, Tao Chen, Jun Xu, Ming Pan, Jiating He, Huey Hoon Hng, Qingyu Yan, and Hongyu Chen,* "Reducing the Symmetry of Bimetallic Au@Ag Nanoparticles by Exploiting Eccentric Polymer Shells", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010, 132, 9537-9539. 
21. Gang Chen, Yong Wang, Miaoxin Yang, Jun Xu, Sook Jin Goh, Ming Pan, and Hongyu Chen,* “Measuring Ensemble-Averaged Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering in the Hotspots of Colloidal Nanoparticle Dimers and Trimers”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010, 132, 3644-3645. 
22. Tao Chen, Hong Wang, Gang Chen, Yong Wang, Yuhua Feng, Wei Shan Teo, Tom Wu and Hongyu Chen,* "Hotspot-Induced Transformation of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Fingerprints", ACS Nano, 2010, 4, 3087-3094.
23. Gang Chen, Yong Wang, Li Huey Tan, Miaoxin Yang, Lee Siew Tan, Yuan Chen and Hongyu Chen,* "High-Purity Separation of Gold Nanoparticle Dimers and Trimers", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131, 4218-4219.
24. Tao Chen, Miaoxin Yang, Xinjiao Wang, Li Huey Tan, and Hongyu Chen,* “Controlled Assembly of Eccentrically Encapsulated Gold Nanoparticles”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2008, 130, 11858-11859. 
25. Xinjiao Wang, Gongping Li, Tao Chen, Miaoxin Yang, Zhou Zhang, Tom Wu,* and Hongyu Chen,* “Polymer-Encapsulated Gold-Nanoparticle Dimers: Facile Preparation and Catalytical Application in Guided Growth of Dimeric ZnO-Nanowires”, Nano Letters, 2008, 8, 2643-2647.