Zhipeng Kan was born in Qinhuangdao, China, in 1983. In the period of 2003 - 2007, he studied Physics and Mathematics at the School of Physical Science and Technology of Guangxi University in Nanning, China. In 2007, he completed his Diploma Thesis on optical properties of one-dimensional photonic crystals at Guangxi University. From 2007 - 2010, he studied at the Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Hefei, China. In 2010, he obtained his master's degree in Natural Sciences from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2011 - 2015, he was a Ph.D. candidate in the Physics department of Politecnico di Milano, in Milan, Italy, and a Research Assistant in the Optoelectronics Group of Dr. Panagiotis Keivanidis in the Center for Nano Science and Technology @ PoliMi directed by Prof. Guglielmo Lanzani. He received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Politecnico di Milano for his study on ternary organic solar cells. From 2015 - 2018, he was a Research Associate in the KAUST Solar Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, working with Prof. Frederic Laquai and Prof. Pierre Beaujuge. During his time at KAUST, he conducted time-delayed collection field and transient experiments (in the ns - ms time range) to correlate the efficiency of charge photogeneration and recombination in organic photovoltaic composites with their layer microstructures. In 2018, he received support from the CAS Pioneer Hundred Talent Program and held a professor position at the Thin-film Solar Technology Research Center at the Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Chongqing, China. Now, he leads a Device Technology & Device Physics Group in the School of Physical Science and Technology at Guangxi University. His research interests include the electro-optical characterization of solution processable power-generating and photo-detecting devices and the optimization of device functionality through structure-property-performance correlations.