2022-Present | Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University

2010-2022 | Principal Investigator, Advanced Materials and Structural Analysis Laboratory,  Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

2009-2010 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Tohoku University, Japan

2006-2009 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Germany

Employing advanced electron microscopy techniques to investigate atomic-scale structural and electronic properties, with a focus on the modulation of local symmetry and its impact on material functionalities. Research aims to establish structure-property relationships in real space, uncovering the origins of functional behaviors in advanced materials.

2006 | International Federation of Societies for Microscopy (IFSM) Young Scientist Award

2012 | International Battery Association (IBA) Young Researcher Award

2013 | Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) "Lu Jiaxi" Young Talent Award

2013 | CAS Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievement Prize

2018 | Chinese Crystallographic Society (CCrS) Youth Science and Technology Award

2020 | 16th China Youth Science and Technology Award – Special Prize

2020 | National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

2022 | First Prize of Beijing Natural Science Award

1,000+ SCI publications, including 20 in Nature/Science, 120+ in Nature/Science sub-journals, 110,000+ citations, h-index > 180.

Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science (2018–2024) and Chemistry (2019–2024).

(1) Weiguang Lin, Wei Su, Ting Lin, Qiu Fang, Shiyu Wang, Jing Chen, Yuzhou He, Dongxiao Wang, Dongdong Xiao, Yingchun Lyu, Qinghua Zhang, Dong Su , Lin Gu. Unraveling Atomic-Level Mechanisms of Structural Transitions in Lithium Cobalt Oxide under High-Voltage Conditions, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 19, 16038–16046.

(2) Ang Gao, Xinyan Li, Qinghua Zhang, Ting Lin , Yichi Wang, Yujie Chen, Weiguang Lin, Shiyu Wang, Pengxiang Ji, Zhu Luo, Jinlong Wang, Yanbing Guo, Lin Gu；Dynamic Transition Metal Network via Orbital Population Design Stabilizes Lattice Oxygen Redox in Stoichiometric Layered Cathodes, Advanced Materials, 2025, 8, 2412673.

(3) Shang T, Gao A, Xiao D, Zhang Q, Rong X, Tang Z, Lin W, Lin T, Meng F, Li X, Wen Y, Wang X, Su D, Chen Z, Hu YS, Li H, Yu Q, Zhang Z, Wu L, Gu L, Zuo JM, Zhu Y, Chen L, Nan CW. An orbital strategy for regulating the Jahn-Teller effect. Natl Sci Rev. 2024, Aug 5;11(9):nwae255. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwae255.

(4) Xiuhui Bai, Pengfei Hu, Ang Li, Youwei Zhang, Aowen Li, Guangjie Zhang, Yufeng Xue, Tianxing Jiang, Zezhou Wang, Hanke Cui, Jianxin Kang, Hewei Zhao, Lin Gu, Wu Zhou, Li-Min Liu, Xiaohui Qiu & Lin Guo; Nitrogen-doped amorphous monolayer carbon. Nature 634, 80–84 (2024).https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07958-0.

(5) Yonglin Tang, Qinghua Zhang, Wenhua Zuo, Shiyuan Zhou, Guifan Zeng, Baodan Zhang, Haitang Zhang, Zhongyuan Huang, Lirong Zheng, Juping Xu, Wen Yin, Yongfu Qiu, Yinguo Xiao, Qiaobao Zhang, Tiqing Zhao, Hong-Gang Liao, Inhui Hwang, Cheng-Jun Sun, Khalil Amine, Qingsong Wang, Yang Sun, Gui-Liang Xu, Lin Gu, Yu Qiao & Shi-Gang Sun; Sustainable layered cathode with suppressed phase transition for long-life sodium-ion batteries. Nature Sustainability 7, 348–359 (2024)..https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01288-9.

(6) Xinyan Li, Zhuohui Liu, Ang Gao, Qinghua Zhang, Hai Zhong, Fanqi Meng, Ting Lin, Shiyu Wang, Dong Su, Kuijuan Jin, Chen Ge & Lin Gu; Ferroelastically protected reversible orthorhombic to monoclinic-like phase transition in ZrO2 nanocrystals. Nature Materials 23, 1077–1084 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-024-01853-9.