Sihai Yang received his BSc in chemistry from Peking University (2007) and his PhD in inorganic chemistry from University of Nottingham (2010). In 2015, he moved to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester, where he was promoted to a Chair in Inorganic Chemistry. In 2023, he joined Peking University as a chair professor. His academic awards include the Diamond Young Investigator Award (2011), the Honourable Mention Award of the 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 and Muon Source Impact Awards (2019), the CCDC Chemical Crystallography Prize for Younger Scientists (2019), and the RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize (2020).