Shouhua Feng, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Shouhua Feng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is currently Director of the Academic Committee of Jilin University, President of Science and Technology Association of Jilin Province, President of Chemical Society of Jilin Province, and President of International Solvothermal and Hydrothermal Chemistry Association. He received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Jilin University, China in 1986 and was selected an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. He is the member of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, the Ethics Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chemical Advisory Committee of Natural Science Foundation of China, the Science and Technology Commission of Ministry of Education. Prof. Feng has been engaged in inorganic solid-state chemistry and preparative chemistry for more than 30 years. He is a prolific researcher, having published over 500 journal articles and has received numerous awards including the first "National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars" and academic head of "Innovative Research Group" of Natural Science Foundation of China.

Websites: https://chem.jlu.edu.cn/info/1113/10900.html, https://synlab.jlu.edu.cn/en/2013/11/1710.html
Email: shfeng@jlu.edu.cn

Lianzhou Wang, The University of Queensland, Queensland Australia

Lianzhou Wang is professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Laureate Fellow at School of Chemical Engineering, Director of Nanomaterials Centre, and Senior Group Leader of Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. He received his PhD degree from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999. Before joining UQ in 2004, he has worked at two leading national research institutions (NIMS and AIST) of Japan as a research fellow for five years. His research focuses on the design and application of semiconductor nanomaterials for renewable energy conversion/storage including photocatalysts for hydrogen production, low-cost solar cells and rechargeable batteries. He has published > 500 peer-reviewed articles and filed 18 patents, and won some prestigious honours/awards including ARC QEII Fellowship, Future Fellowship and Laureate Fellowship, Scopus Young Researcher Award, and Research Excellence Award in Chemical Engineering. Lianzhou serves as the President of Australian Materials Research Society, and is a fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and Academia Europaea. He is named on the Clarivate’ Highly Cited Researchers list.

Website: https://chemeng.uq.edu.au/profile/2253/lianzhou-wang
Email: l.wang@uq.edu.au

Ghim Wei Ho, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Ghim Wei Ho is currently a professor of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore. She leads the Sustainable Smart Solar System research group working on fundamental and applied research on nanosystems with emerging nanomaterials and hybridized functionalities for energy, environment, electronics and healthcare. She was an elected Scholar at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge and is a Cambridge Commonwealth Society Fellow since 2006. She is also a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). In 2014, she was awarded the L’OREAL UNESCO for Women in Science Fellowship. In 2015, she was the honoree winner of the JCI’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award in the Science and/or Technological Development category. In 2016, she was honoured as the Science & Technology winner for the Great Women of Our Time as well as the ASEAN-US Science Prize for women.

Website: https://cde.nus.edu.sg/ece/staff/ho-ghim-wei/
Email: elehgw@nus.edu.sg

Gang Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shenyang, China

Gang Liu is a professor of Materials Science at Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and deputy director of IMR. He received his Bachelor degree in Materials Physics in Jilin University in 2003 and PhD degree in Materials Science at IMR in 2009. He had a joint PhD study of 1.5 years in The University of Queensland (Australia). His main research interests include functional materials and devices for energy conversion via photo(electro)catalysis and electrocatalysis. He has authored over 190 peer-reviewed journal papers and delivered over 50 keynote/invited lectures. He has received many prestigious academic awards including China Youth Science and Technology Award (2016), Young Scientist Award of CAS (2020), National Award for Natural Sciences (The second prize, the first awardee, 2021), The Xplorer Prize (2022).

Website:http://sourcedb.imr.cas.cn/zw/rck/yjy_imr/201309/t20130913_3931001.html
Email: gangliu@imr.ac.cn

Nicola Pinna, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Nicola Pinna received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris) in 2001. He has since worked at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (Berlin), the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam), the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, the University of Aveiro (Portugal), and the Seoul National University (Korea). In July 2012 he joined the Department of Chemistry of the Humboldt University of Berlin as professor of inorganic chemistry. From July 2016 to April 2021, he was also head of the Department. His research activity focuses on the development of novel materials chemistry routes to nanostructured materials for energy and environmental applications.

Website: https://funm.at/
Email: nicola.pinna@hu-berlin.de

Xiaojing Hao, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Prof Xiaojing Hao obtained her PhD in the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering of UNSW in 2010. She has focused her research on low-cost, high-efficiency thin film solar cells and tandem solar cells for more than ten years, researching on various energy materials for both solar photovoltaic and solar fuel applications. Prof Hao now leads a strong group in the above areas, achieving a number of efficiency records on emerging thin film solar cells. Prof Hao has attracted >$40 million external research grants since 2011, published >170 peer-reviewed journal papers, including publications in Nature Energy, Nature Photonics, with several awards for her research excellence. She was awarded a number of prestigious national prizes, such as, 2020 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science: Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year, 2021 Australian Academy of Science Pawsey Medal, and elected as the Fellow of ATSE in 2022.

Website: https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/xiaojing-hao
Email: xj.hao@unsw.edu.au

Ho Won Jang, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Ho Won Jang is a full professor in Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Seoul National University. He earned his PhD from Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology in 2004. He worked as a research associate at University of Madison-Wisconsin from 2006 to 2009. Before he joined Seoul National University in 2012, he worked at Korea Institute of Science and Technology as a senior research scientist. He is a member of Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology. His research interests include materials synthesis and device fabrication for solar fuel generation, chemical sensing, neuromorphic computing devices, ferroelectronics, and metal-insulator transition. He has published more than 500 papers in international refereed journals.

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ho-Jang-3
Email: hwjang@snu.ac.kr

Bin Liu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Bin Liu received his bachelor of engineering (1st Class Honours) and master of engineering degrees at the National University of Singapore, Singapore in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and completed his doctoral degree at the University of Minnesota, USA in 2011. After spending a year as postdoctoral fellow in the University of California Berkeley, USA, he joined School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University as an Assistant Professor in June 2012 and was promoted to Associate Professor in March 2017. In February 2023, Professor Liu joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at City University of Hong Kong as a Professor. His research focuses on photo(electro)catalysis and in-situ/operando characterization. Professor Liu was awarded emerging investigator by Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Royal Society of Chemistry in 2016, class of influential researchers by Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, American Chemical Society in 2018, and listed in the “Highly Cited Researchers” in Cross-Field in 2019 and Chemistry in 2020-2022 by Clarivate Analytics.

Website: https://www.cityu.edu.hk/mse/people/mse-faculty/liu-bin
Email: bliu48@cityu.edu.hk

Wenzhuo Wu, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

Dr. Wenzhuo Wu is the Ravi and Eleanor Talwar Rising Star Associate Professor in the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Wu’s research interests include designing, manufacturing, and integrating nanomaterials for applications in clean energy, wearable sensors, and nanoelectronics. He was a recipient of the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, IOP Semiconductor Science and Technology Best Early Career Research, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Sustainable Development Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers Barbara M. Fossum Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigator, Advanced Materials Interfaces Hall of Fame , ARO Young Investigator Award, NSF Early CAREER Award, Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) Functional Materials Division (FMD) Young Leaders Professional Development Award, Microsystems & Nanoengineering (MINE) Young Scientist Award, Purdue College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Award for Early Career Research, Advanced Materials Technologies Hall of Fame, an invited participant at the 2022 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, an invited participant in the first U.S.-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium, an invited participant in the Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine symposium, Sensors Young Investigator Award, an elected Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), an elected Fellow of Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), Nanoscale Emerging Investigator, and a Purdue University Faculty Scholar.

Josie Yang, Frontier Nano-Mirco Science Academy

Josie Yang obtained her Ph.D. from Central South University in 2020, during this period, she studied and worked in Kyushu university, Japan as a joint Ph.D. student for half a year. Josie joined Frontier Nano-Mirco Science Academy in January 2021 as a member of research team.

José Oliveira, 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.

Guangchen Xu, 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.

Jing Zhu, 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.

Muxian Shen, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Muxian Shen studied chemical engineering and material science at East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai, China. After obtaining B.Sc. and P.hD. degrees from that institute, she worked for Nature Research Group before joining Wiley. She is based in Shanghai.

Eric Wang, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Eric Ying Wang completed his PhD at Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH, Sweden) in 2014 where his thesis work was about mechanistic study of artificial photosynthesis. After graduation from KTH he held position as a Wallenberg–Stanford Postdoc at Stanford University (USA) from 2014 to 2016, where he was involved in projects related to nitrogen reduction. In 2016 Eric moved back to Sweden and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at KTH until he joined Wiley-VCH in 2018. Eric Wang is working in the editorial teams of Chemistry—An Asian Journal and ChemistrySelect. He is based in Wiley's Shanghai office.