Portrait of Wan-Jian Yin

Wan-Jian Yin

Professor

College of Energy, Soochow University

160+
Publications
19,000+
Citations

Talent Programs and Honors

Selected as a Distinguished Professor under the Changjiang Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education

Selected for the National High-Level Overseas Young Talents Program

Education

Ph.D. in Physics, Department of Physics, Fudan University

Supervisor: Academician Xin-Gao Gong

B.S. in Physics, Department of Physics, Fudan University

Professional Experience

Professor

College of Energy, Soochow University

Research Associate

National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA

Research Assistant Professor

University of Toledo, USA

Postdoctoral Researcher

National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA

Research mentors: Su-Huai Wei and Yanfa Yan

Research Interests

  1. Crystal structure prediction and full-space inverse materials design

  2. Materials formation and synthesis: understanding and predicting how materials form in nature and how target phases can be synthesized through physics-based computation and artificial intelligence

  3. Design of inorganic functional materials

  4. Microscopic mechanisms of transport in nanoconfined materials and methods for their control and optimization

Research and Teaching Activities

  1. Serves as a reviewer for leading international journals in physics, chemistry, and materials science, including Nature Materials, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, and Energy & Environmental Science.

  2. From 2012 to 2013, taught modules on the electronic structure of solids and first-principles calculations in undergraduate and graduate courses—including Condensed Matter Physics and Physics of Solar Energy Materials—at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo.

  3. At Soochow University, teaches the undergraduate courses Energy Physics and Semiconductor Physics.

Books and Book Chapters

  1. W.-J. Yin, H.-J. Gu, and X.-G. Gong (2019). “Computational Modeling and the Design of Perovskite Solar Cells.” In W. Andreoni and S. Yip (eds.), Handbook of Materials Modeling. Springer, Cham.

  2. Yanfa Yan, Wan-Jian Yin, Tingting Shi, Weiwei Meng, and Chunbao Feng (2016). “Defect Physics of CH₃NH₃PbX₃ (X = I, Br, Cl) Perovskites.” In Nam-Gyu Park, Michael Grätzel, and Tsutomu Miyasaka (eds.), Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskite Photovoltaics: From Fundamentals to Device Architectures. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland.

  3. Wan-Jian Yin, Tingting Shi, and Yanfa Yan (2016). “Structural, Electronic, and Optical Properties of Lead Halide Perovskites.” Chapter 6 in Enrico Da Como, Filippo De Angelis, Henry Snaith, and Alison Walker (eds.), Unconventional Thin Film Photovoltaics. Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing.

Publications

Professor Yin has authored or co-authored more than 160 publications, which have received over 19,000 citations.