Prof. Ying Zhao is currently working as a researcher (professor equivalent) at School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics‍ at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Prior to joining Tongji, she worked as a post-doc research associate in Engineering at the University of Cambridge. During her time in Cambridge, she participated in the SOLBAT project in Faraday Institution. Before that, she obtained her doctoral degree in Materials Science at Technische Universitaet Darmstadt in Germany. She got both her bachelor's and master's degrees from the current department at Tongji. Her main research interests include mechanical-electrochemical modeling of lithium batteries, phase field simulation, and novel numerical methods (such as isogeometric analysis and the finite cell method). She serves as a young editorial board member of the "Journal of Applied Mechanics" and  "Applied Mathematics and Mechanics".