Rate My Professor Zongyou Yin

Professor Zongyou Yin is a Professor and ARC Future Fellow at Level 3 in the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Jilin University in China and his Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His career includes roles as Research Fellow at NTU, Scientist II at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering under A*STAR in Singapore, Postdoctoral Associate promoted to Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Visiting Fellow at Harvard University from 2014 to 2015. He joined ANU in 2017 as Senior Lecturer, was promoted to Associate Professor in January 2020, and to full Professor in January 2024.

Yin's research specializes in AI-driven materials innovations and nano-to-atomic scale materials science, investigating the relationships among materials, structures, and devices for energy conversion and storage, body-wearables, and (opto)electronics. His group advances sustainable functional devices via data-driven synthesis, high-throughput methods, and precise control of material properties. He has earned extensive recognition, including annual Highly Cited Researcher status since 2015, World Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science in 2019 and Cross-Field category from 2021 to 2024, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2024, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics in 2024, Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 2025, ARC Future Fellowship at Level 3 in 2023, and ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Early Career Academics in 2019. Notable publications include "Single-Layer MoS2 Phototransistors" (ACS Nano, 2012), "Graphene-based materials: synthesis, characterization, properties, and applications" (Small, 2011), and "Single-layer semiconducting nanosheets: high-yield preparation and device fabrication" (Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 2011), contributing to over 43,000 citations. He holds more than 10 international patents and teaches courses such as CHEM2213 Materials Chemistry and CHEM3202 Advanced Physical and Materials Chemistry.