Dr. Li Yang is a research associate professor in UT-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute and the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), USA. She holds a master’s degree in atomic and molecular physics from Sichuan University (SCU) and a PhD degree in condensed matter physics from University of Electronic Science & Technology of China (UESTC). Her research involves multiscale modeling of behavior of defects/impurities in nuclear related materials and material performance in extreme environments. She has more than 20 years of research experience at SCU, UESTC, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and UTK. To date, Dr. Yang has published near 100 peer-reviewed articles in Nature Communications, Nanoscale, Nuclear Fusion, Acta Materialia, Applied Physics Letters, Physical Review B, and others. Dr. Yang serves as a reviewer for technical articles submitted to Nuclear Fusion, Journal of Nuclear Materials, Nuclear Materials and Energy, Nuclear Science and Techniques, Fusion Engineering and Design, Fusion Science and Technology, Journal of Applied Physics, Computational Materials Science, Applied Surface Science, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Materials Research Express, and others.