Lydia received her B. Appl.Sci. with Honors and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from NTU. She won the third prize of the Young Persons’ Lecture Competition in London in 2004 for her talk in strain relaxation of SiGe/Si heteroepitaxy. After completing her PhD, she worked as a Senior Engineer at the Technology Development Department of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (now Global Foundries) in the area of advanced gate oxide technology. She was also a Visiting Scientist at Stanford University developing organic photovoltaic materials at the Department of Chemical Engineering. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, NTU.