People

Meet the MYlab team.

An interdisciplinary group working across physics, materials science, chemistry, and engineering.

Principal Investigator

Prof. Mario Hofmann

Prof. Mario Hofmann obtained a B.S. in Technical Physics in 2003 and an M.S. in Technical Physics in 2006 from the Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany. He later joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving an M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2009 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2012. After a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Physics at National Taiwan University, he served at National Cheng Kung University from 2012 to 2017, joined the Department of Physics at NTU as an Associate Professor in 2017, and became a Professor in 2022.

Prof. Hofmann has an h-index of 30 and has authored 107 publications with more than 10,000 citations. He has written three book chapters, holds two patents, and has had three articles featured in academic editorials. He has served as a reviewer for journals and funding agencies and has been an invited speaker at more than 20 conferences.

He has received more than NTD 60 million in research grants from scientific agencies and international companies, taught more than 850 students, and supervised 31 Master's and 10 Ph.D. students.

107publications

31 + 10Master's + Ph.D. students supervised

> NTD 60Mresearch grants

Contact: Mario(at)phys.ntu.edu.tw

Principal Investigator

Prof. Ya-Ping Hsieh

Prof. Ya-Ping Hsieh received her M.S. and Ph.D. from National Taiwan University. She joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a visiting student in 2007 and as a postdoctoral researcher in 2010. She later served at National Chung Cheng University, where she advanced from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and Professor, before moving to the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences at Academia Sinica in 2017.

Her research focuses on the synthesis of advanced materials for electronics and energy applications. Her publications include work in Nature Communications, Nature Materials, Science, and Advanced Materials, alongside patents, book chapters, and review articles.

Contact: yphsieh(at)gate.sinica.edu.tw · IAMS profile

Current team

Students

Our lab currently consists of 10 Master's-level students, mainly from the Department of Physics at NTU, and six Ph.D. students from Taiwan, Germany, and India. Students work across materials synthesis, devices, characterization, and theory, with projects designed to encourage collaboration across disciplines.

Where they go next

Alumni

After graduation, our students have moved into semiconductor and technology companies including TSMC, Micron, ASML, Applied Materials, Hitachi, and UMC. Alumni who remained in academia have become postdoctoral fellows at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Academia Sinica, and National Taiwan University, and faculty members at Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University, Chung Yuan Christian University, and NTU.