Paul Burrows, PhD

Paul is an independent consultant and the General Manager of Nanjing Reata Technology Service Company, Limited and formerly served as Vice President of the Jiangsu Industrial Research Institute (JITRI) in Nanjing, China (2019–2025), where he also held the role as Secretary General of the WAITRO Secretariat. JITRI, funded by Jiangsu Province, drives industrial innovation and now operates across the Yangtze Delta under the National Innovation Center (NICE). Prior to that, he was Senior VP for R&D at the Institute for New Energy in Shenzhen.

He is also Chief Research Development Officer at KB Science, where he advises clients on research strategy, team science, and large-scale proposal development.

Paul obtained his PhD in Physics from Queen Mary College, University of London, in 1989, where he worked on molecular electronic devices. He was a Research Scientist in the Frontier Research Program at Riken Institute in Japan, and held research appointments at the University of Southern California and at Princeton University, where he was a Research Scholar from 1997 to 2000. Paul contributed to the early development of Universal Display Corporation (Nasdaq listed in 1996) as a co-inventor of phosphorescent organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) and stacked, color-tunable OLEDs. He later joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as a Laboratory Fellow in the Energy Science and Technology Directorate, where he managed the $5 million Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative and built a Department of Energy-funded solid-state lighting program, including a $1 million per year OLED research group. His thin-film encapsulation technology won a Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer award in 2002 and led to the founding of Vitex Systems, which was acquired by Samsung in 2010.

Paul has worked across the UK, USA, Japan, and China, holds 124 U.S. patents (350 worldwide), and has published over 110 peer-reviewed papers in organic semiconductors, thin-film tech, and solid-state lighting.