Jenny Y. Yang

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

Jenny Y. Yang
Born
Jenny Yue-fon Yang

San Fernando Valley, California
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (B.S.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.)
AwardsPresidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Sloan Research Fellowship
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
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese楊又芳

Early life and education

Jenny Yue-fon Yang[2] was born in the San Fernando Valley and raised in Chatsworth, Los Angeles. She is a second-generation Taiwanese-American.[1] Yang completed a bachelor's of science degree in chemistry at Berkeley in 2001 and her doctor of philosophy in inorganic chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007.[3][2]

Career

Yang conducted postdoctoral work at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory where she was promoted to staff scientist. In 2011, she assumed a position at 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, electrocatalysis, as well as materials science.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Awards and honors

Yang has received several awards. These include a Department of Energy Early Career Research Award,[1] Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (2017), the Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow (2017), Research Corporation Advanced Energy Materials Scialog Fellow (2017), and the 2016 National Science Foundation CAREER Award.[4] Yang was appointed to the 2018 class of CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars.[10] She has been selected as a member of the Global Young Academy.

References
  1. 楊, 婷專 (January 13, 2017). "台裔學者獲美工程師最高榮譽". Sina Daily News (in Chinese). Sina Corp. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
  2. Yang, Jenny Yue-fon (2007). "Distal hydrogen-bonding effects and cofacial bimetallic salen architectures for oxygen activation chemistry". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/40873. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. "Directory | UCI Department of Chemistry". www.chem.uci.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
  4. "UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System". www.faculty.uci.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
  5. Tsay, Charlene; Livesay, Brooke N.; Ruelas, Samantha; Yang, Jenny Y. (2015-11-02). "Solvation Effects on Transition Metal Hydricity". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137 (44): 14114–14121. doi:10.1021/jacs.5b07777. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 26466014.
  6. Tsay, Charlene; Ceballos, Bianca M.; Yang, Jenny Y. (2018-10-08). "pH-Dependent Reactivity of a Water-Soluble Nickel Complex: Hydrogen Evolution vs Selective Electrochemical Hydride Generation". Organometallics. 38 (6): 1286–1291. doi:10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00558. ISSN 0276-7333.
  7. Chantarojsiri, Teera; Reath, Alexander H.; Yang, Jenny Y. (2018-10-02). "Cationic Charges Leading to an Inverse Free-Energy Relationship for N−N Bond Formation by MnVI Nitrides". Angewandte Chemie. 130 (43): 14233–14238. doi:10.1002/ange.201805832. ISSN 0044-8249.
  8. Thammavongsy, Zachary; Cunningham, Drew W.; Sutthirat, Natwara; Eisenhart, Reed J.; Ziller, Joseph W.; Yang, Jenny Y. (2018). "Adaptable ligand donor strength: tracking transannular bond interactions in tris(2-pyridylmethyl)-azaphosphatrane (TPAP)". Dalton Transactions. 47 (39): 14101–14110. doi:10.1039/c8dt03180k. ISSN 1477-9226. PMID 30252015.
  9. Hanna, Caitlin M.; Sanborn, Christopher D.; Ardo, Shane; Yang, Jenny Y. (2018-04-06). "Interfacial Electron Transfer of Ferrocene Immobilized onto Indium Tin Oxide through Covalent and Noncovalent Interactions". ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10 (15): 13211–13217. doi:10.1021/acsami.8b01219. ISSN 1944-8244. PMID 29624364.
  10. "Announcing the 2018 Class of CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars". CIFAR. September 6, 2018. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
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