Feng Yang received his B.S. in chemistry from Shandong University in 2011 and Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry under Prof. Yan Li from Peking University in 2017. He subsequently held the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents Fellowship and worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Yan Li’s group, Peking University until October 2019. Then he joined the faculty of Southern University of Science and Technology as an Assistant Professor/PI and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022.

Dr. Yang leads a research group that primarily concerned with the synthetic and materials chemistry within carbon nanotubes, structure-controlled growth of carbon nanotubes, and studies of dynamic evolutions of nanomaterials at atomic scale by in-situ environmental TEM. His research has so far resulted in more than 70 peer-reviewed publications on Nature, Nature Synthesis, Science Advances, Chem. Rev., Acc. Chem. Res., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater., CCS Chem. etc. The work reported on Nature was selected by ACS C&EN as “Top 10 Chemistry Research of 2014”. He received awards including Premier Award for SUSTech Teaching Competition for Young Teachers (2023), Excellent Young Scientists Fund from NSFC (2022), Guangdong Pearl River Talent Plan (2022), National Natural Science Award (the 2nd Grade, 2/5, 2021), Top 10 Innovation Award for National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents Fellowship (2020), Natural Science Award of Chinese Ministry of Education (the 1st Grade, 2/7, 2018), Iijima Prize of Japan Fullerene-Nanotube-Graphene Society (2018), NT18-Best Young Scientist Award (2018), Honorable Mention for IUPAC Award for Young Chemists (2017), and National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents Fellowship (2017). He serves as an Advisory Board member of “The International Conference on the Science and Applications of Nanotubes and Low-Dimensional Materials” (NT conference) and works as a Young Editorial Board member of Nano Research and Chinese Chemical Letters.