Dr. Yan Zeng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University. Yan is leading a research group on discovering and advancing materials for energy storage, accelerating materials synthesis using robotics, AI, and data-driven tools, and designing chemical processes to convert minerals to battery materials. Before moving to Florida, Yan was a Staff Scientist and a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she led the build of an autonomous inorganic solid-state synthesis laboratory (the A-Lab) with Prof. Gerbrand Ceder. Yan obtained her Ph.D. degree in Materials Engineering from McGill University, where she developed Li-ion battery cathode materials using hydrochemical synthesis and thermodynamic modeling. Yan is a recipient of the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards (2025), Early Career Distinguished Presenter at MRS Spring (2025), Scialog Fellow on Automating Chemical Laboratories (2024), Gold Medal Graduate Excellence Awards (2020), and the Gordon M. Ritcey Ph.D. Award in Hydrometallurgy (2019).
Website: https://www.yan-zeng.com/