Cui Xiangzhi, a research fellow and master's supervisor, graduated from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) with a Ph.D. degree in 2009. She is a member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS and a candidate for the outstanding young persons list of the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

She is mainly engaged in basic application research on clean hydrogen energy and environmental catalysis and has designed and developed a series of high-efficiency and low-cost catalyst materials from inorganic nanoporous composites. She has made a number of innovative research results and progress in electrocatalysis for hydrogen production, hydrogen fuel batteries and zinc-air batteries. She has more than 70 papers published in energy and catalysis-related journals such asEnergy & Environmental Science, ACS Catalysis, and Chemical Science.She has published a monograph, with more than 10 authorized patents.