Dr. Claire C. Zhang received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2007. She was a post-doctoral researcher in University of Maryland - College Park before she joined BASF Corporation as a research scientist. Her research has covered electrochemical deposition of magnetic electronic devices, energy storage devices, heterogeneous catalysis, synchrotron ambient pressure XPS, Fourier Transformed Infrared Spectroscopy, Raman Spectroscopy and thermal analysis techniques. She has over 20 peer-reviewed journal publications, and holds 1 granted patent and 2 patent applications.