Peichen grew up in Sichuan (the birthplace of pandas with a lot of spicy food). He received a BSc in Physics from USTC (2018) and a PhD in Materials Science from UC Berkeley (2023), advised by Prof. Gerbrand Ceder. He then completed the postdoctoral work at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet (
BIDMaP), co-advised by Profs. Kristin A. Persson, Bingqing Cheng and Aditi Krishnapriyan. He joined NUS MSE as an Assistant Professor under the Presidential Young Professorship from July 2025. He enjoys traveling, hot pot, and writing with LaTeX. [
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