Professor Zhenan Bao Promotes the Exchange of Ideas, Diversity, and Collaboration in Conversation with SCCEI
In December 2022, Zhenan Bao, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, spoke about her journey to becoming a renowned chemical engineer and innovator and her passion for mentoring the next generation of innovators.
In conversation with SCCEI Co-director Scott Rozelle, Zhenan Bao, K.K. Lee Professor of Chemical Engineering and former department chair of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, spoke about her journey to becoming a renowned chemical engineer and innovator and her passion for mentoring the next generation of innovators.
Throughout the conversation, Professor Bao stresses the need for diversity and collaboration in order to foster an environment of innovation and creativity. She highlights this by sharing her path of discovery to inventing skin-like electronics, stating that it would not have been possible without the exchange of diverse ideas and collaboration with others across disciplines. She also emphasizes how important it is to use the skills and knowledge she has gained throughout her journey to mentor the next generation of innovators.
Professor Bao concluded the conversation with a message to all, she said, “continue to collaborate, continue to work together. There are so many problems that society and mankind are facing, these are big problems that require everyone from around the world to solve…We need to understand each other to be able to set policies that will be able to advance solving these problems - it requires everyone's collaboration and investment to achieve this.”
Listen to the full conversation between Professor Zhenan Bao and Professor Scott Rozelle here:
