Shuchen Hsieh earned her PhD in Physical Chemistry in 2003 from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. Following a Post-doc appointment at NIST, in 2006 she joined the National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) Department of Chemistry as an Assistant Professor and in 2015, she was promoted to full Professor. Prof Hsieh’s research covers many aspects of Surface Chemistry and Scanning Probe Microscopy. At present, she is focused on the development of new Self-Assembled Monolayers, Nanomaterial Synthesis and Applications, and Green Chemistry.