Yanfeng Zhang is a full professor of the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Peking University. She received her PhD from the Institute of Physics in the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. Later on, she worked as a JSPS fellow from 2006 to 2009 in Tohoku University, Japan.
Her research interests relate to the controlled growth, accurate characterization and novel property exploration of two-dimensional layered materials such as graphene, h-BN–graphene heterostructures, and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and their heterostructures. Prof. Zhang has published over 200 papers in Science, Phys. Rev. Lett., Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., etc. in her research career. All the papers are non-self-cited by over 10000 times. In 2012, she won the support of “National Natural Science Foundation for Excellent Young Scholar” from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). In 2019, she obtained the support of “National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholar” from NSFC. She was also enrolled in the “Youth Project of the Yangtze River Scholar” in 2015.