Zheng Yijun is an Assistant Professor at ShanghaiTech University. She got her Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry and Physics, Peking University. Before joining ShanghaiTech, she did postdoctoral research at Max Planck Institute of Polymer Research and Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Germany. Her research interests was mainly focus on functional polymer synthesis and dynamic biomaterials. She has sufficient research experiences in polymer chemistry, surface chemistry, photochemistry, peptide synthesis and self-assembly, and materials and cells interactions at the molecular level.  She has published more than 30 papers in Top journals such as Nature Communications, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Advanced Materials, and Materials Horizon.