Su Ying Quek is an Associate Professor in Physics at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and is also a faculty member at the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering. She received a BA Honors (1st-class) in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University. She was a recipient of the National Research Foundation Fellowship in Singapore, and has given more than twenty invited talks at international conferences. She leads a computation and theory group that studies the electronic structure and lattice dynamics of emerging materials. The group has been successful in creating impact through strong collaborations with experimentalists, and is also active in advancing methodologies that address research problems of experimental relevance.