Pin Lyu

I graduated from Shanghai Normal University, a comprehensive local university with salient features of teacher training and particular strength in liberal arts. Between my undergraduate and masters’ degrees, I spent a year serving as a volunteer teacher in Math and Physics at an underserved middle school in Yumen, China, where I found my passion for education. In the meantime, fascinating research involvement in the field of photocatalysis inspired me to explore more fundamental aspects of physical chemistry. When I moved to the University of California Merced for graduate school, I conducted more photocatalysis mechanism research with metallic nanoparticles in Dr.. Son Nguyen’s lab. I received my Ph.D. in physical chemistry in May 2023 and joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UNC Asheville to start my independent career, devoted to research-inspired education.