Zongyou Yin received his B.S. & M.S. degrees from Jilin University, China, and then the Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Since then, he has worked as the Research Fellow at NTU, the Scientist II at IMRE, A*STAR, Singapore, the Postdoctoral Associate and then promoted to the Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During 2014 - 2015, Dr Yin also worked as the Visiting Fellow for one year at Harvard University. In 2017, he joined the ANU as the Senior Lectuer, and promoted to the Professor in Jan. 2024.

He is the recipient of some awards/honours, including Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI) (2025), Advanced Materials Laureate of International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Sweden (2024); World Highly Cited Researchers (2024); Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics (FAIP) (2024); Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (2024); Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship (Level 3, 2023); Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Sweden (2023); World Highly Cited Researchers (2023); Elsevier/Stanford's Global Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientists (2023); the International Hydrogen Research Fellowship awarded by Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia (2023); World Highly Cited Researchers (2022); Elsevier/Stanford's Global Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientists (2022); World Highly Cited Researchers (2021); Elsevier/Stanford's Global Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientists (2021); World Highly Cited Researchers (2020); Elsevier/Stanford's Global Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientists (2020); the Vebleo Energy Innovation Awardee, Vebleo International Conference (2020); World Highly Cited Researchers (2019); Elsevier/Stanford's Global Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientists (2019); Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Early Career Academics (2019); Fellow for the international <Make Our Planet Great Again> program from France (2018); World Highly Cited Researchers (2018); ANU Futures Scheme Fellowship (2017); World Highly Cited Researchers (2017); World Highly Cited Researchers (2016); MIT Kaufman Teaching Certificate (2015); World Highly Cited Researchers (2015); Awardee of Proof-of-Concept Grant from National Research Foundation, Singapore (2011); Singapore International Graduate Scholarship for PhD study; Excellent Undergraduate Scholarship (3 times) and Excellent Leader of Student Union (1 time) of Jilin University, China. He has been serving as a reviewer for some journals, including Chem Rev, Chem Soc Rev, Nat Energy, Nat Catalysis, Joule, Sci Adv, Nat Commun, Adv Mater, JACS, Angew Chem, Matter, etc.

Zongyou’s research is interdisciplinary, encompassing AI-driven materials innovations, materials-structures-devices relationships, and their applications for energy, environment and biomedicine.