Zhidan Zeng is a staff scientist at Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR). She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University in 2011. After that, she worked at Stanford University and Carnegie Institute for Science as a postdoctoral researcher. She joined HPSTAR as a staff scientist in 2016. Her research focuses on the structure, properties and phase transitions of energy-related materials and group-14 elements (carbon, silicon, and related materials) under extreme conditions, synthesis of novel super-hard materials, as well as mechanical properties and deformation of materials.