Viyada Harnchana has been working as a lecturer in the Department of Physics, Khon Kaen University, since 2011. She received a B.Sc. degree in Physics (1st class honors) from Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand, in 2004; an M. Sc. in Nanoscale Science and Nanotechnology from the University of Leeds, UK, in 2005; and a Ph.D. degree in materials engineering from the University of Leeds, UK, in 2011. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics, at Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea in 2015. Her research interests include nanomaterials for energy applications, dye-sensitized solar cells, and triboelectric nanogenerators.