Principal Investigator

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Yang​ Zhao, PhD, Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
The University of Western Ontario, Canada
Email: yzhao628@uwo.ca
Tel: 519-661-2111 x 81478

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Education and training

2019-2020     Postdoc, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
2019-2020     Postdoc, University of Western Ontario, Canada
2015-2018     Ph.D. in Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Western Ontario, Canada 
2007-2014     BS and MS in Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
 

Honours and Awards

  • Engineering Junior Faculty Award for Excellence in Research (2024)
  • Stanford's List of the World's Top 2% Scientists (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
  • Petro-Canada Young Innovator Awards (2023)
  • Research.com Rising Star of Science Award (2022, 2023)
  • Materials Today Energy Early Career Researcher (2021)
  • AVS Late-Abstract Energy Transition Symposium Theme Award (2019)
  • ALS Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellowship (2019-2020)
  • Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship (2019)
  • Reader’s Favorite Paper Award of Joule (2019)

 

Editorial Board

Materials Today (Assistant Editor, 2024-)
Atomic Layer Deposition, International Journal (Associate Editor, 2021-)
Frontiers in Materials (Associate Editor, 2021-)
Materials Today Energy (Early Career Advisory Board, 2021-)
Renewables (Youth Editorial Board Members, 2023-)

     

Conference Organizing

Symposium Co-Organizer: 2025 MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit, "EN02 Sodium-Based Energy Storage", Seattle, Washington, USA, April 7-11, 2025 (with Drs. Yan Zeng, Guiliang Xu, Xin Li)
Symposium Co-Organizer: 2025 Pacificchem-The International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies 2025, "Battery Chemistry Beyond Li-ion: Materials, Interfaces, Characterizations and Simulations", Honolulu, Hawaii, December 15 - 20, 2025 (with Drs. Bin Ouyang, Dong-Hwa Seo, Xinbin Cheng, Jigang Zhou)
Symposium Co-Organizer: 2024 Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, "Sustainable Batteries", Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, June 2-5, 2024 (with Drs. Lingzi Sang, Christian Kuss, Michael Metzger, Chongyin Yang, Xia Li, Sixu Deng, Jian Liu)
Symposium Co-Organizer: 2024 MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit, "ES06-Sulfur and Sulfide Chemistry in High-Performance Electrochemical Energy Storage", Seattle, Washington, USA, May 7-9, 2024 (with Drs. Hui Wang, Dongping Lu, Yoon Seok Jung)
Symposium Co-Organizer: 2023 Fall ACS Meeting, "Solid-State Batteries: Materials, Interfaces, Characterizations and Simulations”, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 13-17, 2023 (with Drs. Bin Ouyang, Hongli Zhu, Tao Gao)
Symposium Co-Organizer: 2022 Spring ACS Meeting, "Mechanisms and Materials in Electrochemical Energy Storage", San Diego, CA, USA, March 20-24, 2023 (with Drs. Tao Gao, Tianbiao Liu, Wei Wang)