Dr. Yi Zhang received her BS degree in organic chemistry with

distinction, from Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU, China) in 1997, and Ph.D.

in chemistry and physics of polymer from SYSU in 2002 (with Professor Jiarui

Xu). Then she joined the faculty at SYSU in 2002 as an assistant professor and

associated professor in 2005. In 2009-2010, she carried out one year research

work in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a visiting scholar.

She is currently a full professor of Chemistry in SYSU. Her research interests

are mainly on the development of organic/polymeric photoelectric materials and

high-performance functional polyimide. She has totally published 150 pieces of

SCI papers in Nat Commun, Angew Chem, Chem Mater, Chem Sci and Chem Soc Rev

etc., which have been cited around 4000 times by others over the past five

years, and 10 of them are ESI Highly Cited Papers. She has obtained 28 items of

authorized Chinese national invention patents, and given 26 times of invited

reports on academic conferences at home and abroad. She has been

awarded Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talents of Guangdong

Province in 2016 and Scientific and technological Innovation Leading talents among Middle-aged and Young people in the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2018.