Yali Ji obtained her Ph.D. degree from Fudan University, China, under the supervision of Prof. Gengfeng Zheng in 2023. Her Ph.D. studies focused on structure-performance relationship of catalysts in CO2RR, CORR and C-N coupling reaction. She joined the Sargent group at Northwestern University as a postdoc fellow in May 2024, with research interests in electrocatalytic carbon utilization and mechanism study.