Tierui Zhang

Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China

Dr. Tierui Zhang is a full Professor in Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Director of Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, CAS. He received his B.S. in Chemistry in 1998, and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 2003 from Jilin University in China. After that, he did postdoctoral study in Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, University of Alberta, University of Arkansas and University of California-Riverside, respectively. His research activity focuses on catalyst nanomaterials for energy conversion such as photocatalytic solar fuels and value-added chemicals. He has published more than 300 peer reviewed SCI journal articles in international famous journals such as Nat. Catal., Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. and J. Am. Chem. Soc. These publications have earned him to date over 31000 citations with H-index 100. He was named in the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2018-2023 List by Clarivate Analytics. Dr. Zhang is the associate editor of Science Bulletin, Industrial Chemistry & Materials and Transactions of Tianjin University, and also serves as an editorial board member for peer-reviewed journals including Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Science, Small Methods, Scientific Reports, ChemPhysChem, Materials Chemistry Frontier, Solar RRL, Carbon Energy, Innovation and SmartMat. He is the recipient of a number of awards including Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellowship, National High-Level Talents Special Support Program, “Outstanding Young Scholars” of the National Science Fund. He was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2017. More information can be found from his homepage http://zhanglab.ipc.ac.cn. His ORCID No.: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7948-9413.

E-mail: tierui@mail.ipc.ac.cn

Hiroshi Imahori

Kyoto University, Japan

Hiroshi IMAHORI completed his doctorate in organic chemistry at Kyoto University. From 1990–1992, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA. In 1992, he became an Assistant Professor, ISIR, Osaka University and then moved to the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, as an Associate Professor. Since 2002, he has been a Professor of Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. He has received Japanese Photochemistry Association Prize (2004), JSPS Prize (2006), CSJ Award for Creative Work (2006), Osaka Science Prize (2007), NISTEP Researcher Award (2007), RSC Fellow (2014), ECS Fellow (2016), and Foreign Member of Finish Academy (2018). His current interests involve solar energy conversion and organic functional materials.

E-mail: imahori@scl.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Guihua Yu

The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Guihua Yu, a distinguished fellow of AAAS, MRS, RSC, IOP, IMMM and IAAM, is Temple Foundation Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His research broadly focuses on creative design and synthesis of new functional nanomaterials, with particular emphasis on emerging materials for energy hydrogels, their chemical and physical properties, and their applications in energy, environmental, and sustainable technologies. Professor Yu's work has been published in many prominent journals, including Science, Nature, PNAS, Nature Reviews Materials, Nature Reviews Chemistry, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Energy, Nature Catalysis, Nature Sustainability, Nature Synthesis, Nature Water, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Chemical Reviews, Chemical Society Reviews, Accounts of Chemical Research, Accounts of Materials Research, JACS, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, ACS Central Science, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, Chem, Joule, Matter, Energy & Environmental Sciences and etc. His papers have garnered 100,000 citations and an H-index of 180, and have been covered by numerous international media outlets, such as Nature News, Science News, ABC News, NBC News, Fox News, CNBC News, CBS News, BBC News, Bloomberg, Axios, Forbes, Discovery, National Geographic, Scientific American, NPR, Thomson Reuters, World Economic Forum, Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press.

He currently serves as Associate Editor of ACS Materials Letters, a flagship materials journal of American Chemical Society, and also serves in advisory/editorial board of over 20 leading scientific journals, including Chem, Chemical Society Reviews, ACS Central Science, Chemistry of Materials, Energy Storage Materials, Nano Research, Nano Research Energy, etc. He has received numerous international awards, including RSC Horizon Prize, Blavatnik National Awards Honoree, Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research, TAMEST’s O’Donnell Award in Engineering, TMS Brimacombe Medalist Award, IAAM Medal Award, IUPAC Award for Creativity in Applied Polymer Science/Technology, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, Sloan Research Fellow, MIT Technology Reviews "Top Young Innovators in the world" and International Young Chemist Award from IUPAC. Professor Yu has delivered over 200 invited lectures and presentations at various academic conferences and universities in the United States and abroad.

E-mail: ghyu@austin.utexas.edu

Xuping Sun

Sichuan University, China

Xuping Sun received his PhD degree in Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC), Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. During 2006–2009, he carried out postdoctoral researches at Konstanz University, University of Toronto, and Purdue University. In 2010, he started his independent research career as a full Professor at CIAC and then moved to Sichuan University in 2015. In 2018, he joined University of Electronic Science and Technology of China where he founded the Research Center of Nanocatalysis & Sensing. He is currently a professor at West China Hospital of Sichuan University and Shandong Normal University. He was recognized as a highly cited researcher (2018-2020) in both areas of chemistry and materials science by Clarivate Analytics. He published over 780 papers with total citations over 96000 and an h-index of 151. His research mainly focuses on rational design of functional nanostructures toward applications in energy catalysis and medicine.

E-mail: xpsun@uestc.edu.cn

Xiaodong Guo

Sichuan University, China

Professor Xiaodong Guo obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Sichuan University in 2011. Subsequently, he served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia, from 2014 to 2016. He is currently a Professor at Sichuan University, Dean of the School of Chemical Engineering, and Principal Investigator of the Phosphorus-based Functional Materials and New Energy Chemical Engineering Research Group. Professor Guo’s research primarily focuses on battery materials (including solid-state electrolytes, lithium iron phosphate (LFP), high-nickel ternary cathodes, and other cathode/anode materials), encompassing the entire innovation chain from fundamental research through intermediate-scale amplification to engineering transformation. Addressing key challenges in material synthesis and production—such as difficulties in precise structural control, unclear scaling-up principles, and lengthy production processes. Through structural modulation, flow-field scale-up, and novel process development, his group has established a distinctive research profile emphasizing both fundamental insights and industrial applications. Over the past five years, Professor Guo has published over 120 papers in prestigious journals including Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem., accumulating over 6000 citations. He holds 23 granted invention patents and 1 US patent. He has led more than 30 research projects, including grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Sichuan Provincial programs, and industry-academia collaborations. Professor Guo has received numerous prestigious awards and recognitions, including the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the Chang Jiang Young Scholars Award from the Ministry of Education, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the First Prize of Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, the Meituan Green Hill Award, and the Hou Debang Chemical Engineering Youth Award.

E-mail: xiaodong2009@scu.edu.cn

Bumjoon Kim

KAIST, Republic of Korea

Bumjoon Kim is a KAIST Endowed Chair Professor and Department Head in the department of chemical and biomolecular Engineering at KAIST. He received his Ph.D. degree from UC Santa Barbara under the guidance of Prof. Edward Kramer. Afterward he worked with Prof. Jean Fréchet at UC Berkeley. His current research includes polymer designs for the development of high-performance, mechanically-robust solar cells, polymeric electrolyte and block copolymer-based smart particles. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers and 70 issued/pending patents. He received the KAIST Academic Excellence Award (2015), Shimgye Science Award (2017), Doray Science Foundation Research Award (2019), MSIT-NRF Scientist of the Month Award (Korean Government, 2021), S-oil Next-Generation Scientist Award (2021) and is appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2022). He used to serve as editorial advisory board member of ACS Macro Letters and Macromolecules (ACS) and currently serves as editorial (advisory) board member of Chemistry of Materials (ACS), J. Mater. Chem. A (RSC), Giant (Elsevier) and Chinese Journal of Polymer Science.

E-mail: Bumjoonkim@kaist.ac.kr

Michael Saliba

University of Stuttgart, Germany

Prof. Michael Saliba is a full professor and the director of the Institute for Photovoltaics (ipv) at the University of Stuttgart, with a dual appointment at the Research Center Jülich, Germany. His research focuses on a deeper understanding and improvement of optoelectronic properties of photovoltaic materials with an emphasis on emerging perovskites for a sustainable energy future. Since 2021, Michael is the Speaker of the DFG Graduate School (GRK) 2642 for “Quantum Engineering”. In 2022, he was awarded an Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC).

Previously, Michael was at TU Darmstadt, Fribourg University and a Marie Curie Fellow at EPFL, Switzerland with research stays at Cornell and Stanford. He obtained his PhD at Oxford University and MSc degree at Stuttgart University together with the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research.

Michael has published numerous works in the fields of plasmonics, lasers, LEDs and perovskite optoelectronics. He is listed as ISI Highly Cited Researcher since 2018. He was awarded the Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and named as one of the World’s 35 Innovators Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review. He is a Member of the German National Young Academy (Junge Akademie, hosted by the BBAW and Leopoldina).

E-mail: michael.saliba@ipv.uni-stuttgart.de

Yaqian Lan

South China Normal University, China

Dr. Yaqian Lan is currently a full professor at South China Normal University, Dean of the School of Chemistry, and Principal Investigator of Cluster Energy Materials Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Physics Chemistry at Northeast Normal University in 2009. After that, he was awarded the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) International Fellowships for research in National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) from 2010 to 2012.

His research focuses on cluster chemistry and coordination chemistry of crystal materials for the application in energy storage and conversion. Dr. Lan has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals, including Nat. Syn., Sci. Adv., PNAS, Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Chem, Matter, Natl. Sci. Rev., accumulating over 35000 citations with H-index 101. He was named in the annual Highly Cited Researchers List by Clarivate Analytics (2020-2024) and Elsevier (2021-2024). He has received numerous prestigious awards and recognitions, including the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars (2016), Changjiang Scholars Programme of China (2018), Leading Innovative Talent of Science and Technology (2018), Leading Talent of "Ten Thousand Plan" - National High Level Talents Special Support Plan (2019), National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2022), a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Heilongjiang Province Natural Science Award, and Jilin Province Natural Science Award.

Dr. Lan is the associate editor of Chinese Chemical Letter, and also served as an editorial member for peer-reviewed journals including National Science Review, Inorganic Chemistry, EnergyChem, Polyoxometalates. More information can be found from his homepage http://yqlangroup.com/. His ORCID No.: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2140-7980.

E-mail: yqlan@m.scnu.edu.cn

Tan Swee Ching

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Prof. Tan Swee Ching received his Bachelor in Physics from the National University of Singapore. He then worked in Hewlett Packard Singapore and Ireland as a Laser Process and Equipment engineer to develop new technology for silicon micromachining. During his work in Hewlett Packard, he had made two major contributions which helped the company to reduce operation cost by at least US$400,000 per annum and to increase the throughput by 35% within his department. He was honoured the Award for Outstanding Achievement for these contributions to the company. He gained PhD admission to University of Cambridge Electrical Engineering Department with Scholarships from Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and Wingate Foundations. His PhD work was to use photosynthetic proteins as light absorbing materials for solar cells under the supervision of Professor Sir Mark Welland. After his PhD, Prof. Tan then moved to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT to become a postdoctoral associate working on high electron mobility devices under Prof Carl V. Thompson and Professor Tomas Palacios.

He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at National University of Singapore. He is also the founder of Ultra Dry Pte. Ltd. a spin-off company from NUS based on the invention of a super-hygroscopic material. Prof. Tan also sits in the editorial board of Scientific Reports (a journal of Nature Portfolio), advisory board of Device (Cell Press), international advisory board of Energy Technology (Wiley) and is also an Associate Editor at Nano Research Energy. Last but not least, Dr Tan's works are published in many top tier journals like Nature Review Materials, Nature Electronics, Nature Sustainability, Nature Water, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Joule, Advanced Materials, etc.

E-mail: msetansc@nus.edu.sg 

Yu Chen

Shaanxi Normal University, China

Dr. Yu Chen is currently a full professor at Shaanxi Normal University. He received his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry at Nanjing University in 2009. His research primarily focuses on precious metal nanostructures for various energy related electrocatalysis reactions. He has published over 200 papers in top journals, including Chemical Society Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Energy and Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, accumulating over 20000 citations with H-index 83. He has led more than 20 research projects, including grants from the National Key Research and Development Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Shaanxi Provincial programs. Dr. Chen also serves as an editorial member for peer-reviewed journals including Sustainable Materials and Technologies, Chinese Journal of Catalysis, Electron. More information can be found on his homepage https://mse.snnu.edu.cn/szdw/szjg1/wjfjsclx/js2/c_y1.htm. His ORCID No.: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9545-6761.

E-mail: chenyu001@snnu.edu.cn 

Liming Dai

The University of New South Wales, Australia
E-mail: liming.dai@case.edu

Wanlin Guo

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
E-mail: nsiguo@nuaa.edu.cn

Yadong Li

Tsinghua University, China
E-mail: ydli@tsinghua.edu.cn

Yongfang Li

Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
E-mail: liyf@iccas.ac.cn

Zhong Lin Wang

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
E-mail: zlwang@gatech.edu

Husam N. Alshareef King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Mannix P. Balanay Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Ilias Belharouak Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

Paul Braun University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Shimou Chen Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China

Zhongwei Chen University of Waterloo, Canada

Fangyi Cheng Nankai University, China

Jang Wook Choi Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

Xavier Crispin Linköping University, Sweden

Michael O. Daramola The University of Pretoria, South Africa

Kai Dong Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Lioz Etgar The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Olivier Fontaine Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC),  Thailand

Ligang Feng Kunming University of Science and Technology, China

Xinliang Feng Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Jingqi Guan Jilin University, China

Shaojun Guo Peking University, China

Zaiping Guo The University of Adelaide, Australia

Keith Johnston The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Dong Ha Kim Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea

Dong-Yeon Koh KAIST, Republic of Korea

Hyun-Wook Lee Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

Min Liu Central South University, China

Liqiang Mai Wuhan University of Technology, China

Takao Mori National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan

Seung-Taek Myung Sejong University, Republic of Korea

Hideo Ohkita Kyoto University, Japan

Caofeng Pan Beihang University, China

Huisheng Peng Fudan University, China

Shizhang Qiao The University of Adelaide, Australia

Barry P. Rand Princeton University, USA

Bibhudutta Rout University of North Texas, USA

Byungha Shin KAIST, Republic of Korea

Li Song University of Science and Technology of China, China

Xinlong Tian Hainan University, China

Chunsheng Wang University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Guoxiu Wang University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Jamie Warner The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Lydia Helena Wong Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Yujie Xiong University of Science and Technology of China, China

Yuxi Xu Westlake University, China

Alex Qingyu Yan Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Changduk Yang UNIST, Republic of Korea

Nianjun Yang Hasselt University, Belgium

Gleb Yushin Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Genqiang Zhang University of Science and Technology of China, China

Huabin Zhang King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia 

Chuan Zhao The University of New South Wales, Australia

Jun Zhong Soochow University, China

Xiaoxin Zou Jilin University, China