Professor Ghim Wei Ho is Provost’s Chair Professor of the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she leads the Sustainable Smart Systems research group. Her research spans fundamental and applied research in nanosystems, focusing on low dimensional nanomaterials, interfacial interactions and hybridized functionalities for applications in energy, environment, electronics and healthcare.

She has co-authored more than 250 papers in the international refereed journals. She was recognized as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2023, 2024 and 2025 in the Cross Field category. She was an elected Scholar at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge and has been a Cambridge Commonwealth Society Fellow since 2006. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). Her accolades include the L’OREAL UNESCO for Women in Science Fellowship in 2014, the JCI’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) Award in the Science and/or Technological Development category in 2015 and the Great Women of Our Time in Science & Technology in 2016. More recently, she was awarded the 2025 Nano Energy Award for Energy Conversion and the 2026 Singapore National Institute of Chemistry (SNIC)-AsCA Distinguished Woman Chemist Award. Additionally, she serves as an Associate Editor for journals such as Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Materials Advances and EcoEnergy and is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Advanced Sustainable Systems, ChemPlusChem, Advanced Materials Technologies, ChemNanoMat, Next Energy and Nano Trends.

Professor Ho has also contributed to academic leadership and university service. She served as vice dean (2020-2024), Deputy Chair (2023) and Chair (2025) of the University of Promotion and Tenure Committee and Associate provost (2024). She has been vice provost (Academic Affairs) and Dean of CELC since 2025.