Our Team
Principal Investigator
Yizhou Zhu
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering, Westlake University
Yizhou Zhu obtained her B.S. degree in Physics (2011) and M.S. degree in Nuclear Technology (2014) both from Peking University. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2018. She worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Northwestern University from 2018 to 2021. Zhu joined the Westlake University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor since September 2021.
Her research works on solid electrolytes have been published in renowned journals such as Nature, Sci. Adv., Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Joule, J. Mater. Chem. A, etc.
Ph.D. Students
Xizhe Zhang
2023-Present
B.S. in Aircraft Design and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University (2016-2020)
M.S. in Applied Mechanics, Zhejiang University (2020-2023)
Zihan Yan
2023-Present
B.S. in Microelectronics Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University (2019-2023)
Boyi Situ
2024-Present
B.S. in Microelectronics Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University (2020-2024)
Yiyi Kong
2026-Present
B.S. in Material Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2022-2026)
Zhengqi Liu
2026-Present
B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (2020-2024)
Undergraduate Students
Xinlin Wang
2023-Present
Undergraduate Student, Westlake University (2023-Present)
Visiting Student, University of California, Berkeley (2025)
Alumni
Dongfang Yu
2022-2026
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Westlake University (2022-2026)
Assistant Professor, Hefei University of Technology
Zhewen Zhu
2022-Present
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Westlake University (2022-2026)
Jiazhong Geng
2023-2025
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Macau (2019-2022)
Postdoc, Westlake University (2023-2025)