Kwang Leong Choy’s Her research focuses on the development of high performance nanostructured and nanocomposite materials based on superthin/thin/thick films using novel and advanced materials synthesis methods for solar cells, energy storage, optoelectronics, environment, engineering, healthcare , and biomedical applications. Her pioneering research on the innovative, eco-friendly and cost effective non-vacuum Chemical Vapour Deposition platform technology has led to patents, technology translation and exploitation by industrial companies as well as recognition awards, including the Kroll Medal & Prize (2020) and the Grunfeld Memorial Award and Medal (1999) by The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3). She has led and participated in many national, European and international research projects with a large consortium of academia and industries.

She has authored four books, “Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD): Advances, Technology and Applications” (CRC Press, 2019), “Biomaterials in Clinical Practice: Advances in Clinical Research and Medical Devices” (Springer, 2017), “Commercialization of Nanotechnologies–A Case Study Approach” (Springer, 2017), ) and “Innovative and Cost-effective Materials Processing Methods” (Imperial College Press, London 2002). She has over 300 publications to her name, including papers published in leading academic journals such as Progress in Materials Science, Advanced Materials, and ACS Nano.

Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include Materials materials sScience, Materials materials Synthesis synthesis and Characterizationcharacterization, Nanoscale nanoscale Functional functional Materials materials and courses that connect materials to energy, environmental science and global health sectors.

Choy has a D.Phil. in mMaterials Science science from the University of Oxford, and a D.Sc. in Materials materials from the University of Nottingham. Before joining Duke Kunshan, she was the founding Director director of the Institute for Materials Discovery and Professor professor for Materials materials Discovery discovery at the University College London (UCL). She was also the Course course Director director of the Postgraduate postgraduate Taught taught Programme programme (MSc) in Advanced advanced Materials materials Science science at UCL. She has served as a cChairperson in Materialsmaterials, and Research research Director director of the University Innovation Centre at the University of Nottingham, as welland as a Reader reader at Imperial College London. Choy She also held the Violette and Glasstone Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford. She has received teaching awards from the University of Nottingham and University College London. She has been awarded Fellow of The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2007 and 2010, respectively.