Resume:

Zhiguo Yi was born on March 29, 1977 in Yun county, Hubei province, China. He obtained his Ph.D of Materials Science in July 2006 from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics (SIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). After a bit more than four years postdoc training in Japan and Australia, he joined the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM) in 2011 via the 100 talents program of CAS. From January 2018 he moved back to the SIC-CAS. His main research interest spans materials physics and chemistry especially those involving ferroelectrics and photocatalysis. He has published more than 120 papers in internationally refereed journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Communications and Advanced Materials, etc. He is currently a standing member of the committee on key materials for electronic components and an editorial board member of the journal of photocatalysis.

Address: Room F413, The Building A

Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

No 585 Heshuo Road, Jiading district, Shanghai 201899, China

TEL: +86-15060417989 E-mail: zhiguo@mail.sic.ac.cn 

Qualifications

BSc Physics, MSc Condensed Matter Physics, PhD Materials Science (Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Current Appointment

Professor of Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

PI of the Lab for Ferroelectric Physics and Photocatalytic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 

Relevant Employment History

· Fujian Institute of Research On The Structure of Matter, Professor and Principal Investigator, Recipient of 100 talents Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011-2017)

·Australian National University, Postdoc Fellow (2008-2010)

·Japan National Institute for Materials Science, JSPS Fellow (2006-2008)

Statement on Research Contributions

·Discovered the orthophosphate semiconductor with photooxidation properties under visible-light irradiation (Published in Nature Materials 2010 and has been cited more than 1800 times)

·Designed a silver decorated zinc oxide photocatalysts that can oxidize methane at room temperature with exceptional activity (Published in Nature Communications 2016 and aroused wide attention)

·Discovered abnormal photovoltaic effect in a centrosymmetric ferroelastic bismuth vanadate (Published in Advanced Materials 2018 and is recognized as a contribution to the field of ferroelectric photovoltaics)

·Discovered photoinduced bidirectional shape deformation in an inorganic solid lead orthovanadate (Published online in Matter 2022 and is recognized as a contribution to the field involving photostriction)

·Discovered a mode of bending deformation in ferroelectric ceramics under electric field (Published in Materials Today 2022)

Research Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (51872311): RMB600,000 (2019-2022)

Outstanding Scientists Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences: RMB2,500,000 (2016-2021)

National Key Project on Basic Research (2013CB933203): RMB4,740,000 (2013-2017)

National Natural Science Foundation of China (21373224): RMB820,000 (2014-2017)

National Natural Science Foundation of China (21577143): RMB780,000 (2016-2019) 

Key Program of Nature Science Foundation of Fujian Province (2014H0054): RMB150,000 (2014-2016)

One Hundred Talents Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences: RMB2,600,000 (2012-2015)

FIRSM Startup Grant: 1,000,000 (2011-2014)

Awards

· Recipient of China Excellent Youth Award for Dielectric Physics (2021)

· Recipient of Leading Scientist of Fujian Province China (2017)

· Recipient of Outstanding Scientists Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2016)

· Recipient of One Hundred Talents Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011)

· Recipient of JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship of Japan (2006)

· Recipient of Outstanding Graduate of the Universities & Institutes in Shanghai (2006)