At the 40th International Conference on Vacuum Ultraviolet and X-Ray Physics, Wanli Yang was awarded the Mid-Career Award in Condensed Matter Physics for extending the applicability of soft x-ray science within the materials science community, especially for the application of ex situ and in situ x-ray spectroscopy to Li-ion batteries.
The Award Committee recognizes outstanding experimental and/or theoretical contributions to the scientific areas of relevance to this conference series. This award is in recognition of the significant contributions that Yang has made to the field over the past decade or more.