Sihai Yang received his BSc in Chemistry from Peking University (2007) and PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Nottingham (2010). He has been awarded the Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award in 2007, the EPSRC PhD Plus Fellowship in 2011, the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship in 2011, and the Nottingham Research Fellowship in 2013. In 2015, he moved to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester and currently holds a Chair in Inorganic Chemistry. His academic awards include the Diamond Young Investigator Award (2011), the Honourable Mention Award of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Prize for Young Chemists (2012), the Institute of Physics B T M Willis Prize (2013), the ISIS Neutron & Muon Source Impact Awards (2019), the CCDC Chemical Crystallography Prize for Younger Scientists (2019), and the RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize (2020). His group develops porous materials for applications in clean-air technology, catalysis, biomass conversion, energy storage, separation and conductivity.