Yichao Zhang will join the MSE faculty as Assistant Professor in the Spring of 2025. She received her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Kansas State University and her PhD in materials science from the University of Minnesota, where she was a Louise T. Dosdall fellow and Phi Kappa Phi doctoral dissertation fellow. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on combining ultrahigh spatial and temporal resolutions of in situ electron microscopy techniques to investigate energy transport and structural transformations in novel electronic and quantum materials at the atomic scale.