Dr. Cheng-Wei Lin | 林丞威
Dr. Cheng-Wei Lin was born in Taichung, Taiwan. He earned his B.S. in Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering at National Tsing-Hua University. After the one year obligatory military service in Taiwan, he then joined Prof. Jiaxing Huang’s lab for his M.S. in Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University, Illinois. In year of 2019, he earned his Ph.D. degree in Materials Chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under the supervision of Prof. Richard B. Kaner. Since October, 2019, he was a postdoctoral fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under the supervision of Prof. Vincent Tung. Currently, Dr. Cheng-Wei Lin is a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Kaner’s lab at UCLA.
Awards
Postdoctoral Research Award, Dept. Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, 2022
Clean Energy Research Center for Water-Energy Technology (CERC-WET) Fellow 2021
Grand Prize in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPrize global competition ($7.5 M) 2015-2021
Materials Chemistry Dissertation Award, UCLA 2019
UCLA Division of Physical Sciences Mautner Graduate Award 2018
Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA 2018-2019
Hanson-Dow Excellence in Teaching Award, UCLA 2018
UCLA Research Showcase Travel Award 2017
Finalist in the Contest of UC Carbon Slam at Xerox, Palo Alto 2016
Excellence in Second Year Academic and Research Award, Dept. of Chemistry 2015
Carbon Upcycling — Co2ncrete
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