Dr. Yuan Yang is currently an associate professor of materials science in the department of applied physics and applied mathematics at Columbia University. He received his B.S. in physics at Peking University in 2007, followed by Ph.D. in materials science and engineering at Stanford University in 2012. After three years as a postdoc in the department of mechanical engineering at MIT, he joined Columbia University in 2015. Dr. Yang’s research interests include advanced energy storage, chemical separation , and thermal management. He is exploring isotope separation for nuclear fusion and nuclear medicines. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers with a total citation over 40,000 times. He is a Scialog fellow on Advanced Energy Storage. He won Materials Today Rising Star Award in 2022, and 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award in 2021.
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