Haowen Tian

Haowen earned his M.S. in Chemistry from Nankai University in China, where he conducted research in total synthesis under the supervision of Professor Pingping Tang. In 2022, he spent eight months as an undergraduate visiting scholar in Professor Kendall N. Houk’s group at UCLA, focusing on computational organic chemistry. Since September 2023, he has been pursuing his Ph.D. in Chemistry at UC Santa Barbara, under the guidance of Professor Ram Seshadri. His research focuses on elucidating structure–property relationships in halide perovskites for optoelectronic applications, employing X-ray and neutron crystallography, pair distribution function analysis, and various spectroscopic techniques. Outside the laboratory, he enjoys snowboarding, photography (camera and drone), and traveling.