Yanfeng Zhang received her PhD from the Institute of Physics in the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. Later on, she worked as a JSPS fellow from 2006 to 2009 in Tohoku University, Japan. In 2010, she joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering of Peking University, and the Center for Nanochemistry of Peking University, served as a professor. Her research interests relate to the controlled growth, accurate characterization and novel property exploration of two dimensional layered materials including graphene, h-BN-graphene heterostructures, and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and their heterostructures. She has published more than 110 papers on international journals, including Science, Nature Commun., Phys. Rev. Lett., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Nano Lett., Adv. Mater., etc. She has been offered several prizes and honors, including 100 National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation (2006), Peking University 100 Talent Program (2010), National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (2012), and Young Scholars of the Yangtze River (2016).