Wenjiao Yao is an associate researcher at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She received her bachelor’s degree from Nanchang University and her doctorate from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistry, the University of St. Andrews, UK. She joined the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2018. She is a Shenzhen Excellent Youth, the deputy director of the Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Carbon Neutral Energy Materials, a Shenzhen Excellent Youth/High-Level Professional Talent, a Nanshan District Pilot Talent, and a Newton International Scholar. Her research areas include secondary battery-positive electrode materials, material genome projects, and green recycling. She has been approved for 15 national general/youth, key R&D plan sub-topics, and provincial and municipal projects, with a total amount of CNY 10 million. As a core member, she has participated in many scientific research projects, such as the National Natural Science International Cooperation Project, the Chinese Academy of Sciences PIFI, the Guangdong Provincial International Cooperation Project, and the UK EPSRC, and has maintained long-term friendly and cooperative relations with the UK, France, the United States, and Thailand.