Academic Staff List| Dr. Zhiyuan ZENG
Dr. Zhiyuan ZENG
BS Central South Univerity
MS Zhejiang University
PhD Nanyang Technological University
Assistant Professor Office: BOC-R7190
Phone: +(852)-3442-2318
Fax: +(852)-3442-0892
Email: zhiyzeng@cityu.edu.hk
Web: https://www.zeng-lab.com/


Dr. Zhiyuan Zeng is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in City University of Hong Kong. He received his BSc, MPhil and PhD degrees all in Material Science & Engineering from Central South University, Zhejiang University and Nanyang Technological University in 2006, 2008 and 2013, respectively. He continued his postdoc training at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2013-2017). Then he jumped into industry in Silicon Valley working for Applied Materials Inc. as a Process Engineer/Senior Process Engineer (2017-2019). Dr. Zeng joined CityU-MSE in 2019. His research interest focuses on using In-situ/Ex-situ Multimodal Characterizations (especially in-situ TEM, synchrotron X-ray absorption, electrochemical testing etc.) to solve fundamental and technologically-important problems, especially those related to energy conversion and storage, nano-electronics and bioelectronics. His research group has been working on diverse research projects, such as nanomaterial synthesis, composites, mechanism study, electronics devices, catalysis, batteries, sensors, etc., and is developing a versatile and interdisciplinary research, ranging from material syntheses, to structures, properties, and to applications. Dr. Zeng is a Highly Cited Researcher in 2018.