From 2006 to 2009, he served as the Chemical Engineering Department Chair at Arizona State University, and now directs the Membrane and Energy Laboratory at ASU.
Dr. Lin works in the field of inorganic membrane science, separation technologies and energy storage.
Lin has been a technical consultant for membrane, chemical, petroleum and energy utility companies.
He joined the faculty of chemical engineering at University of Cincinnati as an assistant professor in 1991 and was promoted to full professor in 1998, where he was co-director of the National Science Foundation Center for Membrane Applied Science and Technology.
Lin co-chaired the 2013 and 1998 North American Membrane Society Annual Meetings,[13] the 1994 MRS Symposium on Materials for Separation Technology, and 2001 ACS Symposium on Advanced Membrane Materials.