Yingchun wang was born in Henan, China. She received her MSc degree in Environmental Engineering in 2016 at Jiangsu University, studying on molecularly imprinted fluorescent polymers for the detection of organic pollutants in the environment. In the following year, she worked as a research assistant at Soochow University. In 2017, Yingchun was granted a CSC fellowship and moved to Belgium to pursue a PhD in the group of Prof. Wim Dehaen at KU Leuven. Her research focusses on the synthesis of triazapentalenes and BOPHY dyes.