Jenny Y. Yang

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Jenny Y. Yang
Born
Jenny Yue-fon Yang

NSF Career Award
Scientific career
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
University of California, Irvine
ThesisDistal hydrogen-bonding effects and cofacial bimetallic salen architectures for oxygen activation chemistry
Doctoral advisorDaniel G. Nocera
Other academic advisorsJeffrey R. Long, Daniel L. DuBois
Chinese name
Hanyu Pinyin
Yáng Yòufāng
Wade–GilesYang Yu-fang
Websiteyanggroup.weebly.com

Jenny Yue-fon Yang (Chinese: 楊又芳)[1] is an American chemist. She is a Professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine where she leads a research group focused on inorganic chemistry, catalysis, and solar fuels.

Early life and education

Jenny Yue-fon Yang

olefins.[4][5][2] She graduated with her Ph.D. in 2007.[6]

Career

Yang moved to Washington to conduct postdoctoral research at the

diphosphine) complexes.[7][8][9] In 2009, she was hired as a senior staff scientist at PNNL. She then worked as a research scientist at the Molecular Catalysis group of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis at the California Institute of Technology. In 2013, Yang joined the faculty at University of California, Irvine
as an assistant professor of chemistry.

Yang's publishes in the area inorganic and organometallic chemistry,[10][11][12] electrocatalysis,[13] as well as materials science.[14]

Awards and honors

Yang has received several awards. These include the

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars.[18]

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