Soochow University

Professor Nanfeng Zheng received his B.S. from Xiamen Univ. in 1998. In 2005, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from Univ. of California-Riverside. During 2005-2007, he worked as a research associate at Univ. of California-Santa Barbara. In 2007, he moved to Xiamen Univ. as a full professor. He is currently a Changjiang Chair professor at Xiamen Univ. and also serves as deputy director of Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials. He has received a number of awards including National Natural Science Award of China (Second Prize, 2018), Chinese National Young Scientist Award (2016), Distinguished Young Investigator Award from NSF-China (2009). Dr. Zheng’s research interests mainly focus on the surface and interface chemistry of functional materials for both fundamental research and practical applications, particularly in the fields of catalysis, energy and environmental science. He has published 180 articles with over 17000 citations.

Jiaxing Huang is now a chair professor of Materials at Westlake University. Prof. Huang graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree, graduated with a Ph.D. from UCLA in 2004, and then engaged in post-doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley. Formally taught at Northwestern University in 2007, and served as a full professor of the Department of Materials of Northwestern University from 2017 to 2021.

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.