Hsiang-Sheng ChenPost Doctoral Scholar
Special Projects
(321) 638-1403
hchen@fsec.ucf.edu
Education:
Ph.D., ChemistryUniversity of New South Wales, Australia, 2021
M.S., Chemistry
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 2015
B.S., Interdisciplinary Program of Science
(Double expertise in Chemistry and Material Science & Engineering)
National Tsing Hua University Taiwan, 2012
Research Focus:
Prior to joining FSEC Hsiang-Sheng Chen focused on inorganic synthesis of well-controlled nanomaterials in his master's degree. Later, he gained interest in catalysis from the 1-year exchange program at the Department of Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley. He then combined his interests in nanomaterial synthesis and catalysis and worked on understanding the structure-function relationship by designing atomically precise alloys as catalysts for methanol fuel cells in his Ph.D. After his Ph.D., he gained interest in addressing methane emission and decided to study the mechanism of methane oxidation at electrochemical interfaces at UW Madison as a research associate. Being educated by climate experts, he realized that climate change is an urgent issue and lots of gaps need to be bridged between academia and the industry to expedite mitigating climate change he joined FSEC in 2022 and has been working with M2X Energy on methane to methanol conversion using bench scale reactors as platforms for developing the modular reactor M2X Energy designed to monetize stranded methane. Recently, Hsiang-Sheng Chen is also leading activities in application development. One vision is to use methanol as a low-cost hydrogen carrier and it is crucial to understand the impact of impurities that exist in crude methanol for hydrogen production and how to balance purification costs with energy penalties associated with the impurities.
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