Rate My Professor Yi Hou

Yi Hou is a Presidential Young Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He was appointed in September 2020 and serves as Head of the Perovskite-based Multijunction Solar Cell Group at the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS). Yi Hou obtained his Ph.D. degree with an SAOT scholarship in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. He completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, where his work focused on the photophysics and transport properties of hybrid semiconductors in photovoltaics. He has held visiting scholar positions at the University of Oxford, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), the Australian National University, and Stanford University.

His research centers on perovskite-based multijunction and tandem solar cells, optoelectronics, and related photovoltaic technologies. Yi Hou has been recognized as an MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 (Asia Pacific) for his contributions to perovskite tandem solar cell technology. Achievements from his group, including world-record efficiencies for perovskite/organic tandem solar cells and single-junction perovskite solar cells on 1 cm² areas, have been documented in the Solar Cell Efficiency Tables (Versions 60 and 62). He has been named a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in the Cross-Field category for consecutive years from 2022 to 2024.