Lilian Hsiao
Associate Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
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College of Engineering
Bio
Lilian Hsiao is Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2014. She joined the faculty at North Carolina State University in 2016. Her group’s work has been featured in a number of awards including the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry, the ACS Unilever Award for Outstanding Young Investigator in Soft Matter, the NSF CAREER award, and the AAAS Marion Milligan Mason Award. Hsiao’s research program applies physicochemical principles at the microscale to understand soft matter mechanics. Her group has contributed to fundamental research in colloidal suspensions, 3D printing, and soft materials, with a particular interest in using microscopy and rheology to solve problems related to pollutant adsorption from wastewater and engineering drug delivery using sustainable and functional gels.