Southeast University

Yan Li received her Ph.D in inorganic chemistry from Peking University in 1993. After two years’ postdoctoral research, she joined the faculty of Chemistry, Peking University in 1995. From 1999 to 2001, she was a visiting Associate Professor at Duke University. She has been the full professor of chemistry at Peking University since 2002. She is also appointed as a distingguished visiting professor in The University of Tokyo since 2016. She has received many awards and honors, such as Chang Jiang Scholar by Chinese Ministry of Education, Chemical Innovation Award Distinguished Scientist by Chinese Chemical Society, Outstanding Researcher by China Association for Science and Technology, fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry etc.

Xing Yi Ling is a Professor in Chemistry from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Jiangnan University China. She received her Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from University of Twente, the Netherlands in 2009,and her postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley between 2009-2011. She is the Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry, and received Singapore National Research Foundation Investigatorship, Nanyang Award for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, L’ORÉAL Singapore for Women in Science National Fellowship, Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship, IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists, and etc.

Professor HUO Fengwei has been a professor at Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech) since 2014, and currently, he is the standing vice director of Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials at NanjingTech. His research focuses on the development of flexible electronic materials, devices and systems, as well as the development of porous coordination polymer based composite materials, etc. Prior to joining NanjingTech, Prof. HUO Fengwei obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Jilin University in China in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. with Prof. Chad A. Mirkin at Northwestern University in US in 2009. Then he joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as an assistant professor. Up till 2023, Prof. Fengwei Huo has published over 190 SCI papers, including Science, Nat. Nanotechnol., Nat. Chem., Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. with over 15,000 citations and an h-index of 61; he also holds 20 China patents. Currently, he serves as the Executive Editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and is on the board of journals including ACS Energy Letters and Research.