Dr. Shangfeng Yang (PhD, FRSC)

Dr. Shangfeng Yang is currently Chair Professor of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), the recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and elected as Fellow of RSC (FRSC). He received his Ph. D. from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2003. He then joined Leibniz-Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellow (2004-2005) and a Guest Scientist (2005-2007). In Dec. 2007 he joined University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) as a full professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and has been appointed as Department Head (Oct. 2014 - Sept. 2021), the Deputy Director of CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion (Oct. 2015 - Jan. 2025), and Deputy Dean of School of Chemistry and Materials Science in Oct. 2021. His current research interests include the synthesis and characterization of novel nanocarbons (mainly endohedral fullerenes) as well as their applications in organic/perovskite solar cells.

Dr. Yang published over 410 peer-reviewed papers in journals including Nat. Chem., Joule, PNAS, Nature Commun., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Chem. Rev., Chem. Soc. Rev., Acc. Chem. Res., listed among Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers, edited two monographs entitled ‘‘Endohedral Fullerenes: From Fundamentals to Applications’’ (World Scientific Publishing Co.) and "Fullerenes: Fundamentals to Applications" (Scientic Publisher), and contributed to 9 book chapters. He delivered more than 120 invited lectures in international and domestic conferences. He was the recipient of “Humboldt Research Award”, “Young Faculty Award” of USTC Alumni Foundation, "CAS Excellent Supervisor Award".