Northwestern Polytechnical University

Xiaodong Chen is the President’s Chair Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Chemistry (by courtesy) and Medicine (by courtesy) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU), and Scientific Director at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). He is the Director of Innovative Centre for Flexible Devices (iFLEX) at NTU, the Director of Max Planck – NTU Joint Lab for Artificial Senses, and the Deputy Director of Singapore Hybrid-Integrated Next-Generation μ-Electronics (SHINE) Center. He received his B.S. degree (Honors) in chemistry from Fuzhou University (China) in 1999, M.S. degree (Honors) in physical chemistry from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2002, and Ph.D. degree (Summa Cum Laude) in biochemistry from University of Muenster (Germany) in 2006. After his postdoctoral fellow working at Northwestern University (USA), he started his independent research career as Nanyang Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University since 2009. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in Sept 2013, then Full Professor in Sept 2016. He was appointed as the President’s Chair Professor in Materials Science and Engineering in April 2019. His research interests include mechano-materials science, senses digitalization, flexible electronics technology, and cyber-human interfaces. So far, he has published more than 340 high-profiled papers and filed/applied more than 40 patents. He has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore and a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry in UK. In addition, he was recognized by multiple prestigious awards and honors including Singapore President’s Science Award, Singapore NRF Investigatorship, Small Young Innovator Award, Singapore NRF Fellowship, Nanyang Research Award, Lubrizol Young Materials Science Investigator Award, Mitsui Chemicals-SNIC Industry Award in Materials and Nano-chemistry, and Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award.

Prof. Guosong Chen got her BA in Chemistry Department, Nankai University, China. She stayed in the same department and got her Ph. D in 2006, working on supramolecular chemistry. Then she did her postdoc work in Chemistry Department, Iowa State University, which was about synthetic carbohydrate antigens and microarray. In 2009, she joined Prof. Ming Jiang’s group as a lecturer in Department of Macromolecular Science at Fudan University. Then she was promoted to associate professor in Oct. 2011, then full professor in Dec. 2014. Right now, she teaches two undergraduate courses, including “sweet chemistry” and “glycochemistry and glycobiology (in English)”. Research Interests Protein assemblies driven by carbohydrate-protein interactions Glyco-assemblies and their immunological properties Carbohydrate chemistry as a new driving force of self-assembly Macromolecular self-assembly inspired by supramolecular chemistry

Prof Xu is a Professor of Chemistry at Harbin Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in Chemistry from Harbin Institute of Technology (China) in 2010, and finished a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2012.01-2013.08). His research interest includes preparation of nanomaterials for SERS, Catalysis and Energy applications. Now he is associate editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Grace joined ACS Publications in 2018 and is currently the primary Point of Contact for Editorial Services in China, which is responsible for leading and developing author, reviewer and researcher services program, supporting the strategic outreach initiatives in China, and engaging with the local scientific community.

Dr. Cyrene Qian joined CAS in November 2015. She is responsible for the training, promotion and designing the case study for CAS solutions, such as SciFinder, PatentPak, etc. Dr. Qian is an expert in retrieving scientific information of chemistry, chemical engineering, energy, pharmacy, biology, material science via SciFinder and other CAS solutions; and she is also familiar with different types of chemical information searching tools. Before joining CAS, Dr. Qian worked as Associated Professor at the National Center for NANO Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Before that she did her post-doc research in the Dept. of Materials, University of Oxford since October 2013. She received her PhD degree in organic chemistry in Ecole Polytechnique, France; she got her master’s degree in chemistry in Memorial University, Canada and she got her Bachelor’s Degree of Materials Chemistry and Bachelor’s Degree of Business in Nankai University.