Yan Zhang obtained her BSc and PhD degrees in Materials Science from Central South University in 2008 and 2013, respectively. She worked in Hunan University from 2014 to 2016. Her PhD work concentrated on the fine adjustment of aligned porous structures and lead-free porous piezoelectric composites for biomedical application. She was a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in Mechanical Engineering in theUniversity of Bath, working on porous materials, ferroelectrics, and their composites from 2016 to 2019. She is now a professor in Central South University, and her research interests include piezoelectric, pyroelectric and ferroelectric materials and their applications in electrocatalysis, energy harvesting, and sensing.