Haiyan completed her PhD at Fudan University (Shanghai, P. R. China) in 2020 with the focus on covalent organic frameworks nanosheets. After graduation, she joined Prof. Dan Li’s group as a postdoctoral fellow at Jinan University (Guangzhou, P. R. China). In 2021, she joined the Cooper group as a visiting postdoctoral research associate, working on the development of covalent organic frameworks for energy storage.