Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
Yong ZHANG
Assistant Professor · Ph.D. Supervisor · Principal Investigator
Dr Yong Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Thrust of Sustainable Energy and Environment, Function Hub, at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University in Korea in 2020, working with Prof. Nam-Gyu Park, one of the founding scholars in the field of perovskite photovoltaics. After his PhD he joined the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), where he served as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow and then a Research Assistant Professor, before formally joining HKUST (Guangzhou) in February 2025.
His research focuses on the photovoltaic materials and devices of metal halide perovskites, with systematic work on high-purity precursor synthesis, optimization of perovskite material performance, solar cell architecture design and stability improvement. To date he has published 80 SCI papers, 33 of them as (co-)first or corresponding author in Nature (2), Science (2), Nature Materials, Nature Energy, Nature Synthesis, Energy & Environmental Science, JACS, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Energy Materials and ACS Energy Letters, with more than 6,000 citations in total.
In his view, designing an interfacial material is not only about whether it conducts well, but also about its "chemical compatibility" with the raw materials used in production — a principle that runs through the group's day-to-day research.
