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

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

Zihan Yan

2023-Present

B.S. in Microelectronics Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University (2019-2023)

Boyi Situ

Boyi Situ

2024-Present

B.S. in Microelectronics Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University (2020-2024)

Yiyi Kong

Yiyi Kong

2026-Present

B.S. in Material Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2022-2026)

Zhengqi Liu

Zhengqi Liu

2026-Present

B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (2020-2024)

Undergraduate Students

Xinlin Wang

Xinlin Wang

2023-Present

Undergraduate Student, Westlake University (2023-Present)

Visiting Student, University of California, Berkeley (2025)

Alumni

Dongfang Yu

Dongfang Yu

2022-2026

Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Westlake University (2022-2026)

Assistant Professor, Hefei University of Technology

Zhewen Zhu

Zhewen Zhu

2022-Present

Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Westlake University (2022-2026)

Jiazhong Geng

Jiazhong Geng

2023-2025

Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Macau (2019-2022)

Postdoc, Westlake University (2023-2025)