Tianran Chen is a recipient of the 2018 Allan Talbott Gwathmey Memorial Award.  The Gwathmey award is an honor reserved for the most accomplished graduate students in the physical sciences at the University of Virginia in recognition of a distinguished scholarly publication.
 
The award acknowledges his recent work, “Origin of Long Lifetime of Band-Edge Charge Carriers in Organic-Inorganic Lead Iodide Perovskites”, published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences 114, 7519-7524 (2017).