Peidong Yang

Peidong Yang
Native name	杨培东
Born	1971 (age 45–46) Suzhou, China
Residence	United States
Fields	Chemistry, Materials science
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater	University of Science and Technology of China Harvard University University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor	Charles M. Lieber
Known for	Nanotechnology

Peidong Yang (simplified Chinese: 杨培东; traditional Chinese: 楊培東; pinyin: Yáng Peídōng; born 1971) is a Chinese-born American chemist and material scientist. He is currently a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (since 1999), member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Materials Science. His research group studies the synthesis of nanomaterials and their electronic and optical properties. He is also a Department Head at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Deputy Director of the Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS). He is an associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, an American Chemical Society Journal.

Peidong received a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1993. For his graduate studies, he worked with Charles M. Lieber at Harvard University, and in 1997, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Chemistry. He was a post-doctoral fellow with Galen D. Stucky at University of California, Santa Barbara from 1997–1999, until being hired as an assistant professor in Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley, where he was granted tenure in 2004.