Prof. Hsinhan Tsai is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) at The State Univerisity of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo). Before joining the SUNY-Buffalo, He was J. Robert Oppenheimer (JRO) Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He also works as an R&D engineer in the California Technology Center at First Solar. He holds BS/MS degrees in Chemistry/Polymer Chemistry and obtained his Ph.D. in Material Science and Nanoengineering.

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Education:

Ph.D in Materials Science and Nanogineering from Rice University​

M.S. in Polymer Chemistry fron National Taipei University of Technology 

B.S. in Chemistry from Fu Jen Catholic University ​

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Awards and Fellowships:

• R&D 100 award –­ Solution-processed Perovskite Crystalline Films (SPeC) (2023)

• Rising Star of Science Award, Research.com (2022)

• Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate (2021)

• Supernova Silver Award, First Solar (2021)

• Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award, Argonne National Laboratory (2020)

• J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2019)

• MRS Graduate Student Gold Award, Material Research Society (2018) ​​