Jinyan Zhao was born in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, China, in 1989. She received her BS and PhD degrees in Electronic Science and Technology from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2011 and 2018, respectively. Since 2018, she has been a Research Assistant Professor with the Electronic Science and Technology Department, Xi’an Jiaotong University. She has authored more than 20 articles and created more than 10 inventions. Her research interests include high-performance lead-free ferroelectric thin and thick film processes and applications, large-strain lead-free ferroelectric and piezoelectric ceramics, the structure–property relationship, and the domain study of thin films, crystals and ceramics using a piezoresponse force microscope.