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Klavs F. Jensen

Klavs F. Jensen

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Engineering and Technology
USA
2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
133
Citations
66928
World Ranking
281
National Ranking
133

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
138
Citations
71362
World Ranking
18
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For fundamental contributions to multi-scale chemical reaction engineering with important applications in microelectronic materials processing and microreactor technology.
  • 1987 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Klavs F. Jensen is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has a research output spanning multiple disciplines within engineering and materials science.

The main fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

Subfields in which they have significant contributions are:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Organic Chemistry

Their research covers a range of topics, with particular focus on:

  • Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography
  • Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis

Klavs F. Jensen has published in several scientific venues, with repeated publications in:

  • Reaction Chemistry & Engineering
  • Chemical Science
  • Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
  • Organic Process Research & Development
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this scientist include:

  • Connor W. Coley
  • William H. Green
  • Brent A. Koscher
  • Yiming Mo
  • Regina Barzilay

Selected recent publications highlight the breadth of research interests:

  • "The Open Reaction Database," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Microfluidic electrochemistry for single-electron transfer redox-neutral reactions," 2020, Science
  • "Generative models for molecular discovery: Recent advances and challenges," 2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science
  • "Current and Future Roles of Artificial Intelligence in Medicinal Chemistry Synthesis," 2020, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • "Bayesian Optimization of Computer-Proposed Multistep Synthetic Routes on an Automated Robotic Flow Platform," 2022, ACS Central Science

The scientist has been recognized with several honors including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2017)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2007)
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2002) for fundamental contributions to multi-scale chemical reaction engineering with applications to microelectronic materials processing and microreactor technology
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1987)

Best Publications

  • Cells on chips

    Jamil El-Ali;Peter K. Sorger;Klavs F. Jensen

  • Analyzing Learned Molecular Representations for Property Prediction.

    Kevin Yang;Kyle Swanson;Wengong Jin;Connor W. Coley

  • Microreaction engineering * is small better?

    Klavs F. Jensen

  • Multiphase microfluidics: from flow characteristics to chemical and materials synthesis

    Axel Günther;Klavs F. Jensen

  • Deciding whether to go with the flow: evaluating the merits of flow reactors for synthesis.

    Ryan L. Hartman;Ryan L. Hartman;Jonathan P. McMullen;Jonathan P. McMullen;Klavs F. Jensen

  • Full Color Emission from II–VI Semiconductor Quantum Dot–Polymer Composites

    J. Lee;V. C. Sundar;J. R. Heine;M. G. Bawendi

  • A robotic platform for flow synthesis of organic compounds informed by AI planning

    Connor W. Coley;Dale A. Thomas;Justin A. M. Lummiss;Jonathan N. Jaworski

  • On-demand continuous-flow production of pharmaceuticals in a compact, reconfigurable system

    Andrea Adamo;Rachel L. Beingessner;Mohsen Behnam;Jie Chen

  • Synthesis of micro and nanostructures in microfluidic systems

    Samuel Marre;Klavs F. Jensen

  • Prediction of Organic Reaction Outcomes Using Machine Learning

    Connor W. Coley;Regina Barzilay;Tommi S. Jaakkola;William H. Green

  • Highly luminescent color-selective nanocrystalline materials

    Moungi G. Bawendi;Klavs F. Jensen;Bashir O. Dabbousi;Javier Rodriguez-Viejo

  • QUANTUM DOT COLLOID AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME

    Bawendi Mounji G;Heine Jason;Jensen Klavs F;Miller Jeffrey N

  • Intracellular Delivery by Membrane Disruption: Mechanisms, Strategies, and Concepts.

    Martin P. Stewart;Martin P. Stewart;Robert Langer;Klavs F. Jensen

  • Machine Learning in Computer-Aided Synthesis Planning

    Connor W Coley;William H Green;Klavs F Jensen

  • A graph-convolutional neural network model for the prediction of chemical reactivity

    Connor W. Coley;Wengong Jin;Luke Rogers;Timothy F. Jamison

  • Transport and reaction in microscale segmented gas–liquid flow

    Axel Günther;Saif A. Khan;Martina Thalmann;Franz Trachsel

  • End‐to‐End Continuous Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals: Integrated Synthesis, Purification, and Final Dosage Formation

    Salvatore Mascia;Patrick L. Heider;Haitao Zhang;Richard Lakerveld

  • Next-generation in vivo optical imaging with short-wave infrared quantum dots

    Oliver T. Bruns;Thomas S. Bischof;Daniel K. Harris;Daniel Franke

  • Chemical vapor deposition : principles and applications

    Michael L. Hitchman;Klavs F. Jensen

  • Synthesis of Luminescent Thin-Film CdSe/ZnSe Quantum Dot Composites Using CdSe Quantum Dots Passivated with an Overlayer of ZnSe

    Michal Danek;Klavs F. Jensen;Chris B. Murray,†,⊥ and;Moungi G. Bawendi

  • Highly luminescent color-selective materials and method of making thereof

    Moungi Bawendi;Klavs F. Jensen;Bashir O. Dabbousi;Javier Rodriguez-Viejo

  • The role of flow in green chemistry and engineering

    Stephen G. Newman;Klavs F. Jensen

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