Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
Qingjie Zhang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, past president of Wuhan University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanics of Materials and Structures from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1990. He was engaged in postdoctoral research in Materials Science in the State Key Lab in Wuhan University of Technology from 1991 to1992.
Professor Zhang has been appointed successively as Chief Scientist of the National Basic Research Program of China (2007-2017) of High-efficiency Thermoelectric Materials and Devices, Director of the State Key Laboratory (2004-2017), Member of 1st National Basic Research Strategy Advisory Committee of Ministry of Science and Technology (2020-), Head of Expert Group of Major Research Project on High-performance Materials with Ordered Functional Unit of National Natural Science Foundation of China (2019-).
His research activities have focused on the development and application in the areas of new energy materials and devices, advanced composite materials and structures, material micro-nano computation and new materials design, to name a few. In the last 20 years, Prof. Zhang received three National Awards for technological invention and scientific discovery including two National Technological Invention Awards and a National Natural Science Award. He received the Acta Materialia Hollomon Award for Materials and Society (2021), and the Frontier of Science and Technology-Rustum Roy Lecture Award from the American Ceramic Society (2017).
Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
Zhengyi Fu, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, is the director of the State Key Lab of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing and a chief professor of the Materials Science and Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology. He is a fellow of the American Ceramic Society, an academician of the World Academy of Ceramics. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology in 1994. He finished part of his Ph.D. research work in the University of California, Davis, USA, in 1990-1991.
His research fields are focused on multifunctional ceramics and ceramic-based composites, structural/functional integrative composites, novel materials structure and properties, in-situ reaction synthesis and processing, fast and ultra-fast sintering, bioprocess-inspired synthesis and fabrication.
He has published 375 scientific papers and obtained 65 patents. He has been awarded two Second-class Award of National Technology Invention Prizes and one Third-class Award of National Science and Technology Progress Prize issued by the State Council of China. He was awarded 8 international awards, including the ACerS John Jeppson Award (2021), Samuel Geijsbeek International Award (2019), Ross Coffin Purdy Award (2019), IUMRS Award 2018, Engineering Valour of the Russian Academy of Engineering (2018), Global Star Award from ECD of ACerS (2017), Outstanding Contributions Award of the Korean Materials Research Society (2017), J. S. Minhas Award of the Indian Ceramic Society (2017).
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Professor Jon Binner is a Professor of Ceramic Science & Engineering in the School of Metallurgy and Materials, at the University of Birmingham. The focus of his research is the generation of both the necessary scientific understanding and the required engineering solutions for the development of processing routes for ceramic materials that display technical and/or financial advantages over existing processes and which yield new or improved materials. He has published about 220 research papers, as well as editing or contributing to 19 books, given around 60 keynote, plenary and invited talks at international conferences and holds 7 patents. He has won 128 research grants totalling about £16.3M, many have been international in nature. He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), the European Ceramic Society (ECerS), the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3) and the Association for Microwave Power in Europe for Research and Education (Ampere). He was the President of the IOM3 from 2012-14 and is currently President of ECerS (2019 to 2021); right across the process of Brexit. The IOM3 awarded him the Holliday Prize in 1995, the Ivor Jenkins Medal in 2007 and the Verulam Medal & Prize in 2011. He won an MBDA Innovation Award in 2016.
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
Peter Fratzl is director at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany, heading the Department of Biomaterials. He received an engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France, and a doctorate in Physics from the University of Vienna, Austria. He is honorary professor at Humboldt University Berlin and at Potsdam University. Peter Fratzl’s lab studies the relation between (hierarchical) structure and properties of biological and bio-inspired composite materials, and conducts research on osteoporosis and on tissue regeneration. His research interests include biomaterials systems for mechanosensing and actuation, as well as interdisciplinary research together with cultural science and design. Peter Fratzl has published more than 600 papers in journals and books and he co-directs the Cluster of Excellence “matters-of-activity.de” in Berlin. He is member of several Academies of Science in Austria and Germany, as well as of the National Academies of Engineering in Germany (acatech) and in the US (NAE).
Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Lei Jiang is a Professor at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (TIPC) and Beihang University. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, and National Academy of Engineering, USA. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Jilin University, and PhD from the University of Tokyo. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Akira Fujishima and then as a senior researcher in the Kanagawa Academy of Sciences and Technology. In 1999, he joined Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2015, he and his group moved to TIPC. His scientific interests focus on bio-inspired, smart, multi-scale interfacial materials with superwettability. Prof. Lei Jiang has discovered and established the basic principle of interfacial material systems with superwettability and extended them to successful innovative applications. His work has been followed by more than 1,400 research institutions in 94 countries around the world. He is the most original and influential scientist in the field of material science in China. Due to his contribution to the development of superwettability, he won the “TWAS Prize in Chemistry” in 2011, the Advanced Science and Technology Award of “THE HO LEUNG HO LEE FOUNDATION” in 2013, and the “Outstanding Achievement Award” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014. In 2016, he won the “UNESCO Medals” for contributions to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies, and the “Nikkei Asia Prize”. In 2017, he won the “Humboldt Research Award” in Germany. In 2018, he was awarded the “Qiu Shi Outstanding Scientist Award” and “Nano Research Award”. In 2020, he won the “ACS Nano Lectureship Award”.
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Dan Li is a Professor and an Australian Laureate Fellow in materials science and engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He received his PhD degree in Materials Physics and Chemistry in 1999 from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. After several years as a Research Fellow at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, University of Washington, University of California Los Angles, and University of Wollongong, he joined Monash University as an associate professor in 2008 and was promoted to full professor in 2012. He was the co-director of Monash Centre for Atomically Thin Materials (2015-2017). He joined the University of Melbourne in 2017. He is passionate about creating a multidisciplinary, entrepreneurial and societal impact-driven research environment to foster future innovators. His group’s current research is focused on developing innovative materials and ionic systems to tackle global challenges in energy, healthcare, water, environment and resources. He has published more than 150 articles in high-impact journals such as Science and Nature Nanotechnology. He was named in the list of Web of Science’s Highly Cited Researchers (2014-2019).
University of California, Davis, USA
Zuhair A. Munir is a Distinguished Professor, Emeritus in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Dean, Emeritus of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Davis. He received his BS (Honors) in Chemical Engineering and his MS and PhD in Materials Science (Ceramics) from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Life Member of the American Society for Metals, a Fellow of ACerS, and Member of the World Academy of Ceramics. Professor Munir has published more than 500 journal papers, edited nine proceedings volumes, co-authored 16 US Patents and one German Patent. He is listed as Author of One of the Top 1% Most Highly Cited Papers in Materials Science in the World (SciVerse Scopus Database). Professor Munir received many honors and awards including from ACerS: The W. David Kingery Award, the John Jeppson Award, and the Outstanding Educator in Ceramic Engineering Award. Other awards include the Gold Medal from the Russian Academy of Science, the Nano50 Award, the Medal of Honor from the International Organization of SHS, the von Humboldt Prize (Germany), the UC Davis Prize, the Japan Government Award for Foreign Scientists, and twice NSF’s Creativity in Research Award. He served as Editor or Associate Editor for several journals including Journal of Materials Science, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Journal of Materials Synthesis and Processing, Journal of Materials Research, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, and Journal of Wuhan University of Technology.
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Ce-Wen Nan, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is a Professor of Materials Science of School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Before joining the faculty of Tsinghua University in 1999, he had worked in Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, since 1985. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Science in 2011 and the Third-World Academy of Science (TWAS) in 2012. He served as the President of the International Ceramics Federation (ICF) in 2012-2014, as Chair of the Asian Electroceramics Association in 2008-2012, and Vice-President of the Chinese Ceramic Society in 2011-2021. His recent research focuses on functional materials, including multiferroic magnetoelectric materials, thermoelectric oxides, functional polymer-based composites, and solid state electrolytes. He has published over 600 archival papers based on his research, and holds 40 Chinese patents and 1 US patent.
University of Namur, Namur, Belgium
Member of the European Academy of Sciences, Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium and Clare Hall Life Member, University of Cambridge, Prof. Su held “Belgian Francqui Chaire” in 2012-2013.
He received his doctoral degree in 1992 from the University Pierre and Marie Curie, France, and is a full Professor at the University of Namur since 2002. He holds also a Changjiang Professor position at the Wuhan University of Technology. He received a series of awards and honors such as First Class Invention Award of Sinopec, China in 1993, China Patent Excellence Award, China in 1994, Adolphe Wetrems Prize of the Royal Academy of Belgium in 2007, Distinguished Award for Novel Materials and their Synthesis, IUPAC in 2011, Friendship Award of the Chinese Government, 2019, First Class Nature Science Award of Hubei Province, 2019 and Darsh-Wasan Award of Surface and Colloid Chemistry, 2020. Prof. Su’s current research fields include synthesis, property study, and the molecular engineering of bio-inspired hierarchically porous materials and bio-integrated living materials for catalysis, photocatalysis, artificial photosynthesis, nanotechnology, biotechnology, energy storage, and conversion and cell therapy.
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Dongyuan Zhao, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Chemistry Department of the Jilin University (China) (1987), and his PhD from Jilin University and Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (1990). He began his academic career as a lecturer in the Chemical Engineering Department at the Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1992. In 1992-93, he was a visiting scholar in the Chemistry Department of University of Regina (Canada). After postdoctoral research at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), University of Houston (USA) and the University of California Santa Barbara (USA), he joined the faculty of the Fudan University in 1998, where he is now Professor in the Department of Chemistry. Prof. Zhao’s research include: Macro- and Microscopically Topological Construction of Highly Ordered Porous Materials; Designed Synthesis, Assembly, Growth and Properties of Mesoporous Materials; Structure and Synthesis Design of Novel Microporous Molecular Sieves; Rational Synthesis and Organization of Novel Patterned Nanoscale Materials.
Markus Antonietti, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
Palani Balaya, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Fen-Er Chen, Fudan University, Shanghai, China Lidong Chen, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China Xianhui Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China Wen Chen, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China Yanfeng Chen, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China Huiming Cheng, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China Yibing Cheng, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
Paolo Colombo, University of Padova, Padova, Italy Wenjiang Ding, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China Shaoming Dong, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Shixue Dou, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
Bruce Dunn, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Monica Ferraris, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Jean-Jacques Gaumet, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France William A. Goddard Ⅲ, California Institute of Technology, California, USA Shengkai Gong, Beihang University, Beijing, China
Takashi Goto, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Liyuan Han, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China Shuguang Hu, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China Wei Huang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China Yunhui Huang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China Desheng Jiang, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
Soo Wohn Lee, Sun Moon University, Asan, Korea Feng Li, Institute of metal research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China Hejun Li, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China Yanrong Li, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China Yuanyuan Li, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China Shuquan Liang, Central South University, Changsha, China Bingbing Liu, Jilin University, Changchun, China Hanxing Liu, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China Xingbo Liu, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA Yichun Liu, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China Zhongfan Liu, Peking University, Beijing, China Zhongmin Liu, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China
Gaoqing Max Lu, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK Jian Lu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Jian Luo, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA Xinping Mao, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China Sanjay Mathur, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany Zuoren Nie, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China Tatsuki Ohji, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Nagoya, Japan Fusheng Pan, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China Nam-Gyu Park, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea Shou Peng, China National Building Material Company Limited, Beijing, China Michael Reece, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Alexander Rogachev, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Mrityunjay Singh, World Academy of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy Susan Sinnott, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA Jun Sun, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China Xinfeng Tang, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
Gustaaf Van Tendeloo, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Yongjun Tian, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China Richard Todd, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Ctirad Uher, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA Francis Verpoort, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China Fazhou Wang, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China Jingyang Wang, Institute of metal research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China John Wang, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Yingjun Wang, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China Yuzhong Wang, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China Bingbo Wei, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China Chengtie Wu, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China Feng Wu, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China Yicheng Wu, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, China Yiquan Wu, Alfred University, Alfred, USA Yuping Wu, Southeast University, Nanjing, China Jianxin Xie,University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China Yi Xie, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China Huibin Xu, Beihang University, Beijing, China Huai Yang, Peking University, Beijing, China Zichun Yang, Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan, China Jiaguo Yu, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China Shuhong Yu, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Yuanzheng Yue, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Di Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China Lianmeng Zhang, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China Pingxiang Zhang, Northwest Institute for Non-Ferrous Metal Research, Xi’an, China Wenqing Zhang, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China Yue Zhang, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China Tianshou Zhao, Southern University of Science and Technology,, Shenzhen, China Yuliang Zhao, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, China Yuguo Zheng, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China Ji Zhou, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Yu Zhou, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China Shining Zhu, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China Zhigang Zou, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
Dr. Wei Ji, currently a Professor at State Key Lab of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.
Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
Dr. Weijian Fang obtained the Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology in 2021. She is the Assistant Editor of Interdisciplinary Materials editorial office at State Key Lab of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, China.
Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
Dr. Meng Cai obtained the Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology in 2023. She is the Assistant Editor of Interdisciplinary Materials editorial office at State Key Lab of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, China.
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.
Daisy is based in Wiley's Beijing office and brings 10 years of experience in the publishing industry. She began her career as a Book Editor, and in 2019, she joined Wiley initially as an Editorial Assistant, taking care of journals within the "Advanced Materials" and "Small" families. In 2021, she transitioned to Journal Publishing Manager, overseeing a portfolio of China Materials Science partner journals. Since 2024, Daisy has served as a Publisher, managing a group of journals in the Physical Sciences.