Zi Yang’s research focuses on quantum many-body computation and its application to modelling and explaining quantum materials. He is an editorial board member of Reports on Progress in Physics and was a Mercator fellow of DFG. Before HKU, he was a professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He obtained phd in Germany and has been a postdoctoral fellow in the US and Canada. He writes essays (mainly in Chinese) to express his opinion on physics research and life and struggle as a scientist in cultural and societal landscapes, these essays can be found on his group page https://quantummc.xyz/.