University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Shi-Xue Dou, Distinguished Professor of the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM) at the Australian Institute of Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong. He was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering in 1994. He was awarded a Ph.D. by Dalhousie University, Canada in 1984 and a DSc by the University of New South Wales in 1998, and three Australian Professorial Fellowships by the Australian Research Council in 1993, 2002, and 2007. He received the Australian Government’s Centenary Medal in 2003, the Engineering Excellence Award highly commended in 2006, finalist of Eureka Award for Science Leadership in 2010 and finalist of Eureka Award for mentoring in 2013, Vice-Chancellors Senior Excellence Award in 2008, Vice-Chancellor Outstanding Partnership Award in 2012, Life Achievement award from ASTS in 2018 and Australian Order of Member (AM) in 2019. He is the program leader for the ongoing Automotive CRC 2020 and ARENA Smart Sodium Storage System program. He has supervised and co-supervised more than 100 Ph.D. students to completion and more than 60 postdoctoral and visiting fellow who have been widely spread within five continents. He is a highly cited researcher named by Thomson Reuters with citations of 41000 and h-index=94. He has focused his research on superconductivity, electronic and energy storage materials, as well as the application of innovative nanomaterials and technology for commercialisation and industry transformation.
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Jun Lu is chair professor at Zhejiang University, China. He received his bachelor degree in chemical physics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2000. He completed his Ph.D. in materials science from the Department of Metallurgical Engineering at University of Utah in 2009. Following a DOE-EERE postdoctoral fellowship under the Vehicles Technology Program, he joined the Division of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at Argonne National Laboratory as chemist in 2015. As a scientist, Dr. Lu has been committed to solving some of the world’s most challenging problems on the rechargeable Li-ion battery (LIB) and the next generation Li batteries. In the past 10 years, he has built up world-leading research programs in batteries, where he pioneered and led the research on novel cationic and anionic redox (CAR) materials for high energy density LIBs, Li-O2 and Li-S batteries. His current research interests focus on electrochemical energy storage and conversion technology, with the main focus on beyond Li-ion battery technologies. He was awarded the first DOE-EERE postdoctoral fellowship as part of the Vehicles Technology Program from 2011-2013. He was elected Associate President and Board Committee Member of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science (IAOEES). He was also the inaugural awardee of the IAOEES Award for Research Excellence in Electrochemical Energy in 2016. In 2022, he received ECS Battery Division Technology Award, Research Excellence Award in Electrochemical Energy Storage (EES Award), ACS Energy & Fuel (ENFL) Division, and IBA Research Award.
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Fang Ren is the president of Xijing University, holder of a doctorate degree, professor as well as senior auditor. At the same time, she is a member of the 12th and 13th national committee of CPPCC, member of the 11th and 12th standing committee of China Youth Federation, vice-president of the China Association for Non-Government Education, member of China Association of Higher Education, vice-president of Western Returned Scholars Association of Shaanxi, vice-president of Shaanxi Association of Higher Education, vice-president of Shaanxi Economic Institute and vice-president of Shaanxi Audit Society.
Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Yong-Mook Kang completed B.S. (1999), M.S. (2001), and Ph.D. (2004) at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He has been a senior researcher at Samsung SDI Co., LTD. He is currently a professor at Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Korea University, South Korea. His research area covers electrode or catalyst materials for rechargeable batteries. His research area covers electrode or catalyst materials for Li rechargeable batteries and various post Li batteries, such as Li-air battery, Li-S battery, Na rechargeable battery and so on. To date, he has co-authored almost 200 refereed journal articles, more than 50 domestic or international patents, several articles in books or proceedings, and a textbook of nano-science and electrochemical devices. For his research achievements in energy conversion & storage materials, he was appointed as a TWAS (Academy of Science for Developing Worlds) Young Affiliate for the first time in South Korea, and awarded the International Collaboration Award of Australian Research Council in 2010. From 2015, he has been appointed as an RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) fellow & representative of Korea. From 2020, he is a member (Young Academician) of Y(Young)-KAST (The Korean Academy of Science and Technology).
University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA
Dr. Zheng Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nano and Chemical Engineering, and the Program of Materials Science and Engineering at UC San Diego. His research group has been focusing on sustainable materials and energy storage devices, including high energy cathodes, silicon/Li anodes, batteries for extreme environments, solid-state batteries, next-generation battery recycling and future manufacturing processes. Dr. Chen has received the 2023 ECS Battery Division Early Career Award, NASA’s 2018 Early Career Faculty Award, the LG Chem Global Battery Innovation Contest (BIC) Award in 2018, and ACF PRF New Investigator Award in 2018. He has been selected as a Scialog Fellow in Advanced Energy Storage by Research Corporation and as a participant of 2022 Germany- America and 2019 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (CAFOE) by National Academy of Engineering.
Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Guanglei Cui received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Chemistry, CAS in 2005. From 2005 to 2009, he was a postdoctoral scientist at the Max Planck Institutes for Polymer Research and Solid State Research with Prof. Klaus Müllen and Prof. Joachim Maier. Then he joined in the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, CAS as full professor from 2009. he was a recipient of the National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China in 2016 and became chief scientist of the National Key R&D Program of China in 2018. His research topics include sustainable and highly efficient energy storage materials, all-solid-state batteries and novel energy devices. He has published 400 papers on peer-reviewed journals of Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. J. Am. Chem. Soc. Adv. Mater., most of which have been indexed by SCI. All the papers have been other-cited by more than 20000 times.
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Dr. Deepak P. Dubal is a Professor at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia, known for his outstanding contributions to the field of clean energy conversion and storage systems such as supercapacitors, batteries and triboelectric/piezoelectric nanogenerators. His impressive career and numerous accolades reflect his dedication to advancing knowledge and fostering sustainability. Prof. Dubal has earned multiple prestigious fellowships throughout his career, including the Brain Korea-21 Fellowship at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in South Korea (2011), the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at Chemnitz University of Technology (TUC) in Germany (2012), the Marie Curie Fellowship at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Spain (2014), and the Vice-Chancellor Fellowship at the University of Adelaide (UoA) in Australia (2017). In 2018, he was awarded an exceptionally competitive ARC - Future Fellowship, which marked a significant milestone in his career and led to his transition to QUT. Dr. Dubal's research has resulted in a prolific publication record, with over 250 peer-reviewed journal articles to his name. He has received international recognition for his contributions, including being listed among the World's Top 2% of Scientists by Stanford University in the field of 'Energy' for his lifetime achievements. Dr. Dubal's expertise has led to global engagements, including appointments as a Visiting Guest Professor at Mid Sweden University (MSU), Sweden and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, and recognition as a Foreign Young Associate Fellow of the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences (FFMAS), India. His research focuses on the design and development of functional materials for clean energy conversion and storage technologies. This work is crucial for advancing sustainable energy solutions and reducing environmental impact. Additionally, Dr. Dubal's team is extending their research into areas such as radiant heaters, biomass valorization, and battery recycling, aligning with the principles of the circular economy and sustainable practices.
Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Dorian Hanaor is an engineer, scientist and writer with cross-disciplinary experience in applied energy materials, civil engineering, ceramic processing and new approaches to sustainability. In consulting, research and education roles across three continents, Dr. Hanaor has specialized in the integration of knowledge to create new insights into the challenges of achieving harmonious engineering-mediated interfaces with the world around us. Since 2017, Dr. Hanaor has held a position as a reader at the Technical University of Berlin where he has taught materials science, architecture and engineering students in innovative multidisciplinary courses on the sustainable processing and implementation of advanced materials in energy and the built environment, in order to prepare emerging professionals for a low-carbon future. He is the author of over 100 scientific articles, chapters and patents.
University College London, London, England
Prof. He is an Associate Professor of Materials Chemistry and a prestigious ERC Starting Grant Awardee at the Department of Chemistry, University College London (UCL). His research focuses on the design and synthesis of functional materials, innovation of devices for electrochemical energy storage and conversion applications, including next generation aqueous batteries, (for example, Zn-ion and Zn-air batteries), supercapacitors, electrocatalysts (water splitting, oxygen reduction reaction, organic compound oxidation/reduction reaction), to generate best-in-class performance and compete with expensive technologies/commercial materials for real-world applications.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Dr. Bolong Huang has received his PhD in 2012 from the University of Cambridge, and his BSc in condensed matter physics from the Department of Physics, Peking University in 2007. Following systematic training periods of Post-doc at Peking University, and in Hong Kong, he started his independent research at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2015. He is now the Associate Professor at Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology and Director of the Research Centre for Carbon-Strategic Catalysis. His main research fields are electronic structures of nanomaterials, energy materials, solid functional materials, and rare earth materials, as well as their applications in multi-scale energy conversion and supply systems. Dr. Huang has published 295 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals with 246 papers as the corresponding author/first author/co-first author including Nature, Science, Chem. Soc. Rev., Energy Environ. Sci., Sci. Adv. J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Chem (Cell), etc., and has received citations over 18000 times with h-index of 73. Meanwhile, Dr. Huang is also a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC), the Associate Editor of Battery Energy (Wiley) and Frontiers in Chemistry, the Early Career Advisory Board of JACS Au, the Young Star Editor of Nano Research (Springer Nature), and the Youth Editorial Board Member of J. Rare Earths, Rare Metals and Rare Earths. Meanwhile, Dr. Huang has been the invited speaker at international conferences for over 30 times and the invited referee for most impactful journals including Chem. Rev., Nat. Phys., Adv. Mater., Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Coord. Chem. Rev., Energy Environ. Sci., Adv. Energy Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Joule, Matter, ACS Catal., ACS Nano, Nano Energy, etc.
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea
Prof IL Jeon read Chemistry for Bachelors and Masters degrees at Oxford University, UK. Upon graduation in 2008, he worked as the youngest senior researcher at LG Display Co. Ltd., South Korea for 5 years. In 2016, he received a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry with honours from the University of Tokyo, Japan. After working as a JSPS post-doctoral fellow, he worked as an Assistant Professor and a Lecturer at the same university. He later joined Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) as an Associate Professor in the Department of Nano Engineering and SKKU Advanced Institute of NanoTechnology (SAINT). Currently, he serves as the Vice Provost for International Affairs at SKKU, while also holding an Early-Tenured Professorship. His team are working on nanomaterials, namely, nanocarbon and biomaterials for various devices ranging from energy (solar cells & batteries) to sensor applications. Additionally, he is the CEO of JLabNT Co. Ltd. and has, thus far, published more than 100 lead-authored SCI papers, mostly as the lead-author, and registered 5 international & 15 domestic patents, mostly as the first-positioned inventor.
Central South University, Changsha, China
Dr Xiaobo Ji is “Shenghua” Professor at Central South University, China and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry since 2014. He received Dphil under the supervision of Prof. Richard G. Compton at Oxford, and undertook post-doctor work at MIT with Prof. Donald Sadoway. His current research is specializing in the research & development of critical materials for energy storage systems including lithium-ion battery and sodium-ion battery. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers, granted with over 70 patents. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers (2022, 2021), National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2023), New Century Excellent Talents”, China Ministry of education (2011).
Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Lifang Jiao is a full professor in the college of Chemistry at Nankai University, China. She received her Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Nankai University (China) in 2005. She was the visiting fellow in the University of Wollongong (NSW, Australia) from November 2013 to November 2014. In 2021, she was award the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. Besides, she has been awarded the 18th China Young Women Scientist Award. She is the chief of the National Key Research and Development Program of China. Her current research interests are focused on energy storage and conversion of advanced materials (including sodium secondary batteries, dendrite-free sodium metal anode and sodium-based solid-state electrolyte), and electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution (including proton exchange membrane water electrolysis and hydrogen production coupled with electrochemical oxidation of small molecules). She has coauthored over 300 relevant peer-reviewed publications with H-index 73 and >19,000 citations. She served as an editorial board member of eScience (KeAi) and Chinese Chemical Letters (Elsevier).
Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Sang-Young Lee is an underwood distinguished professor of the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Yonsei University, Korea. He received BA in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University in 1991, MS, and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from KAIST in 1993 and 1997. He served as a postdoctoral fellow at Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research from 2001 to 2002. Before joining Yonsei University, he worked at Batteries R&D, LG Chem as a principal research scientist and was responsible for developing safety-reinforcing separators (SRS, ceramic-coated separators) which are indispensably used in electric vehicle batteries. He has published more than 160 peer-review research papers, including publications in top-tier journals such as Energy & Environmental Science, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Energy Letters, Nano Letters, Matter, and others. His h-index is 46. He currently serves as the head of the battery division in the Korean Electrochemical Society. His research interests include advanced polymer electrolytes, separator membranes, printed power sources, flexible/wearable batteries, and cellulose-based paper batteries.
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Wei Li, a Professor at the Fudan University. He obtained his bachelor's degree (2008) at the Heilongjiang University and Ph.D. degree (2014) at the Fudan University, China. From January March 2014 to May 2016, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the University of Toronto, Canada and the Institute of Basic Sciences, Republic of Korea. He received the Yangtze River Scholar Distinguished Professor (2022), the First prize in the China's State Natural Science Award (2020), the Highly Cited Researcher Award by Clarivate Analytics (2019-2022), the 11th Young Scientific and Technological Talents of Shanghai, and so on. His research has been focused on synthesis of porous materials and their applications in energy conversion and storage, including catalysis (thermal catalysis, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis), fuel cells, batteries (metal-air battery, Li/Na-S battery, Na-ion battery). He has published more than 200 international journal papers with a total citation of more than 25000, h-index of 82.
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Yat Li is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California Santa Cruz. He received his B.Sc. (1999) and Ph.D. (2002) in Chemistry from The University of Hong Kong. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University from 2003 to 2007. He joined the University of California Santa Cruz as an assistant professor in 2007, was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2013, and was promoted to full professor in 2018. His research focuses on the rational design, fabrication, and assembly of functional materials. He seeks to understand these materials’ chemical and physical properties and explore their potential applications in catalysis, energy conversion, and energy storage. He has published over 160 papers in leading scientific journals. These publications have been cited over 37000 times, with an H-index of 90. Yat Li has been selected as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics since 2017. His research accomplishments were also recognized by awards and honors, including the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2022), CAPA Distinguished Faculty Award (2018), Kavli Fellow (2012), NSF Career Award (2009), Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2003), Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship (2002), Li Po Chun Postgraduate Scholarship (2002).
Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Dr Zhe Li is a Senior Lecturer in Materials Science at the School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London since 2019. He received his PhD from Cavendish Laboratory at University of Cambridge in 2012, and worked as a research associate/research fellow/junior group leader at Imperial College London (2012-2015) and Swansea University (2015-2017), and as a Lecturer of Energy Materials at School of Engineering, Cardiff University (2018-2019). The research of his group is focused on the development of high performance, high stability and environmentally friendly solution processed semiconductors and devices for photovoltaic applications and beyond. We have a particular interest in understanding the materials structure-function-stability-ecotoxicity relationships of solution processed organic, perovskite and quantum dot semiconductors and utilise such relationship to develop sustainable solar cells and other types of optoelectronic devices.
University of New Souith Wales, Sydney, Australia
Xunyu Lu presently holds the position of Scientia Associate Professor within the School of Chemical Engineering at The University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia. He received his Ph.D. degree from UNSW in 2014 and has been working at the same university for nine years, starting as a postdoctoral research associate and now holding the position of Associate Professor. He is the recipient of the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from Australian Research Council, the Bloom-Gutmann Prize from Royal Australian Chemical Institute, and the Scientia Fellow from UNSW. Currently, he leads a dynamic research group that focuses on developing cost-effective and active catalyst materials for energy-related applications. His research has a practical impact as it leads to the development of highly efficient and affordable energy devices, including water/CO2 electrolyzers, hydrogen peroxide generators, fuel cells, and zinc-air batteries.
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB) and Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Germany
Prashanth W. Menezes is the Head of Materials Chemistry for the Thin Film Catalysis Group at CatLab, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, as well as the Inorganic Materials Group at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, specializing in solid-state and materials chemistry. Subsequently, he transitioned to Technische Universität München to explore novel functional materials and then to Technische Universität Berlin to focus on energy catalysis. Dr. Menezes is dedicated to designing, developing, and comprehending the structural intricacies of novel functional catalysts for sustainable and renewable energy applications. His work involves synthesizing unexplored classes of inorganic nanomaterials and meticulously studying their atomic and molecular-level interfaces. This research offers valuable insights for enhancing heterogeneous catalysts in areas such as redox oxygen catalysis, (photo)electrocatalysis, electrochemical redox reactions, batteries, and electrosynthesis of value-added chemicals. His research group is committed to unraveling the active catalyst's structure, the nature of active sites, and the surface/interface and bulk structure of catalysts. They employ advanced operando and in-situ spectroscopy techniques in conjunction with various ex-situ methods to gain mechanistic insights and pathways. Dr. Menezes has made significant contributions to the field with over 150 publications in esteemed international journals and has received multiple awards and fellowships.
University of Southern Queensland, Queensland, Australia
Ashok is a Professor of Energy Storage at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He is a nanomaterial (carbon) and energy expert and a former Chief Scientific Officer at Graphene Manufacturing Group, a listed company. His research has been focusing on sustainable materials and energy storage devices, including rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries and post lithium-ion batteries such as Sodium, Potassium and Aluminium ion batteries and next-generation battery recycling and future manufacturing processes. His research excellence has been recognised by prestigious fellowships, such as Marie-Curie, JSPS-Japan, and UQ Fellowship, and has attracted several million AU$ in funding. His academic output includes over 100 published papers and seven filed patents in the field of nanomaterials and energy. He mentors young researchers and students in his field to advance the frontiers of materials science and energy storage.
Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Jun Hong Noh is a professor affiliated with the School of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering and the Department of Integrative Energy Engineering at Korea University. He earned his BS and PhD degrees in material science and engineering from Seoul National University in 2003 and 2009, respectively. Prior to joining Korea University in 2017, he held a senior researcher position at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) from 2011 to 2017. His primary research interests revolve around halide perovskite solar cells. He has made significant contributions to the development of high-quality halide perovskite thin films, device architectures, and the composition of halide perovskites for use in solar cells. His current research focus is on oxide and halide semiconductors, aiming to enhance the stability and commercial viability of perovskite solar cells. He was selected as the world's Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) in 2018-2022 by Clarivate and he was honored as a Young Academician Member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.
Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
Jieshan Qiu, Cheung-Kong Distinguished Professor of Carbon Science and Chemical Engineering, and Dean of Chemical Engineering College at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. He obtained his first degree (1984) from Anhui University of Technology, China; and master's degree (1987) and Ph.D. (1990), both from Dalian University of Technology, China. He is an internationally recognized research and thought leader in chemical engineering and carbon science. His research encompasses both fundamental and applied aspects of carbon materials and science, with a focus on the methodologies of producing carbon materials for energy storage and conversion, catalysis, and environment protection. He has published 800+ papers in peer-reviewed high profile journals, including Nature Mater., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., PNAS, Nature Commun., Nano Energy, ACS Nano, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Soc. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Joule, Matter, Chem, Sci. Adv., etc., with citations 45,000+ times and h-index of 104 (web of sci.), and his work has been featured on 68 covers of international journals. He has been invited to give 160+ plenary/invited/keynote talks in conferences and at universities and research institutes. He has filed 150+ Chinese and International patents, of which some have been successfully commercialized in China. He has won 20+ prestigious awards and prizes including the 1st class award for fundamental research and industrialization technologies awarded by the Education Ministry of China. He is a highly cited researcher named both by Clarivate Analytics from 2018 to 2022 and by Elsevier from 2019 to 2021, and Top 1% highly cited Chinese authors in the field of energy & sustainability in 2019 by the Royal Society of Chemistry. He had served as Associate Editor of three international journals for years, including: Carbon, FlatChem and ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
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University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Li Song, Professor of National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He received Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics (2006) from Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After four years as postdoctoral researcher at University of Munich Germany (Humboldt Research Fellowship) and Rice University USA, he became an associate professor at Shinshu University in Japan. In 2012, he was promoted to professor at USTC, leading a multi-technique application team in National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (Hefei Light Source). He was nominated as the global highly cited scientist in 2019-2022 by Clarivate Analytics, and won the National Outstanding Youth Fund project funding of NSFC (2022). His research focuses on the development and application of synchrotron radiation-based new experimental technology with the aim of solving scientific problems in the fields of advanced functional nanomaterials and clean energy. So far, he has published more than 300 scientific papers with over 40000 citations in Nat. Mater., Nat. Energy, Nat. Sustain., Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., J. Am. Chem. Soc., PNAS, etc. His h-index is 100.
University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Dawei Su is an Associate Professor in the chemistry discipline at the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney. He completed his Ph.D. in materials science at the University of Technology Sydney in 2013. He is the receiver of the Australia Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. He is leading the research program centred on unveiling the material’s correlation with its electrochemical or photochemical properties from the electronic levels via the combination of in-situ and operando spectroscopies and theoretical investigations. He has driven fundamental advances in designing chemically and structurally tuneable materials and uncovering the impact of materials’ properties on electro/photochemical performance. His unique background allows him to integrate materials science and physics with chemistry and nanotechnology. This synergy combines his expertise in experimental work and electronic-scale theoretical investigations.
Beihang University, Beijing, China
Shubin Yang is a full professor in the department of Materials Science and Engineering at Beihang University. He received his PhD degree in Materials Science from Beijing University of Chemical Technology in 2008, and then worked as a Postdoc in Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and Rice University between 2008 and 2014. His research interests are focused on two-dimensional materials such as graphene, TMDs, MXenes and their applications for energy storage (lithium-based batteries, sodium-based batteries and zinc ion batteries). He has published over 100 SCI papers in Nature, Adv. Mater., Acc. Chem. Res., Sci. Adv., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. and JACS with >10,000 citations. He has received some awards and funding such as "Highly Cited Researcher" (2017-2022) by Clarivate and National Science Fund for Distinguished Yong Scholars. He has granted with over 50 patents, some of which have already been applied in industry (Jinan SCMXene).
University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA
Prof. Yang Yang studied energy conversion & storage and obtained his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2010. From 2010 to 2012 he was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship and worked on solar energy harvesting and energy storage materials at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. From 2012 to 2015 he was supported by the Peter M. & Ruth L. Nicholas Postdoctoral Fellowship and worked on battery and catalysis at the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Sci. & Tech., Rice University. Since 2015 he has been a principal investigator at the University of Central Florida. His research focuses on materials chemistry and electrochemistry at the nanoscale solid-gas-liquid interfaces for clean energy generation and storage, electrification, and decarbonization applications. He has been dedicated to resolving the challenges in many emerging areas, including but not limited to energy, sustainability, environmental issues, agriculture, artificial intelligence, and so forth. His research effort has made a significant impact on the environmentally benign synthesis nanomanufacturing of functional materials for green catalysis, clean energy conversion, and renewable energy storage. He has made many seminal breakthroughs in understanding the materials chemistry and interface engineering of new materials. His significant contributions to the communities have been demonstrated by publishing more than 130 peer-reviewed research articles, including Nature Energy, Nature Communications, Joule, Energy & Environmental Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie, etc.
Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Dr Xiangdong Yao is a National Expert Professor for Energy Materials/Catalysis and the Founding Dean of School of Advanced Energy at Sun Yat-Sen University, China. He obtained his BEng at Northeastern University in 1989 and MEng at Northwestern Polytechnical University in 1992 respectively for Materials Science and Engineering. From 1992 to 2000, he was employed in Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences as Research Associate (1992), Assistant Professor (1995) and Associate Professor (1998). In 2000, he came to The University of Queensland, Australia where he was granted the PhD degree in Materials Engineering in 2005, working on the computational modeling for microstructure formation in light metals. From November 2003, he joined the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials at The University of Queensland. Since November 2009, he relocated at Griffith University, Australia as an Associate Professor and the group leader of Advanced Energy Materials, and promoted to full Professor in late 2012. He joined Sun Yat-Sen University in mid-2022. Dr Yao’s current research focuses on Energy Materials and technology, especially the hydrogen energy and catalysis.
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA
Dr. Jim P. Zheng has been a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of State University of New York at Buffalo since 2020. Prior, he was Sprint Eminent Scholar Chair Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Florida State University. He was a Campus Director of NSF Engineering Research Center of “The Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems” in 2008-2019. He is the recipient of National Academy of Inventors Fellow, National Research Council Fellow, Army Research & Development Achievement Award, NASA Faculty Research Award, and Progress Energy Professional Development Award. He has published more than 180 articles in scholarly journals, and 140 papers in conference proceedings in the fields of energy storage, fuel cells, nano-sensors, photonics, and thin film growth, and been awarded 25 patents, and 10 patents have been licensed by private companies.
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
Zongcheng Miao, professor at the Institute of Optoelectronics and Intelligence, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Ocean Optics of Shaanxi Province, Director of the Key Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Materials and Energy Conversion Devices in Xi’an, Deputy Editor of Battery Energy (Wiley), Chief Editor of the LCD Column of "Current Applied Materials", "Liquid Crystals", Member of the editorial board of "and Display" magazine; member of the Special Information Display Expert Group of Strategic Advanced Electronic Materials of the High Technology Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology, review and outsourcing expert of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Academy of Military Sciences. The first batch of Shaanxi Province "Special Support Plan" technology innovation leaders, the first batch of Shaanxi Province ordinary colleges and universities "Young Outstanding Talents". Presided over the completion of the National Natural Science Foundation of China's general projects, Shaanxi Province key science and technology plan projects, army pre-research projects, and enterprise cooperation projects. As the first author or corresponding author, published more than 100 academic papers in mainstream journals such as AEM, JMCA, and Small, including several global hot papers, ESI highly cited papers and China's 100 most influential academic papers in 2015, 16 national invention patents authorized, 2 monographs published; 7 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
José Oliveira obtained his B.Sc. (Hons) and Ph.D. at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Before joining Wiley in 2001, he worked at the University of Antwerp. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Small.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Guangchen Xu obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. (Hons) from the Beijing University of Technology. He spent a year at Michigan State University as a visiting scholar. Before joining the Wiley team in Beijing in 2011, he was an Assistant Professor at Beijing University of Technology.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Jing Zhu completed her Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2011, during this period, she studied and worked in Guelph Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada as a joint Ph.D. student for 2 years. Jing joined Wiley in July 2011 as a journal Editor and is based in Wiley’s Shanghai office.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Hanyi Xie obtained her BSc at Shandong University, followed by her PhD in a joint program at Peking University and the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology. She joined Wiley in 2021.