Wuhan University

Xing Yi Ling is a President’s Chair in Chemistry from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 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 joined Chemistry and Biological Chemistry division at Nanyang Technological University in 2011, where she was promoted to professor in 2021. Her research focuses in using nanotechnology for fundamental studies and applications in environmental and healthcare fields. Specifically, she is interested in self-assembling shape-controlled noble metal nanoparticles into superlattices to impart new structure-to-function properties and applications in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). Since January 2024, Xing Yi serves as the Editor-in-Chief the ACSApplied Materials portfolio, a family of eight journals focused on materials, interfacial processes, and their applications.

Dr. Peng Wang is a professor at Sun Yat-Sen University in China. He joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia in 2009 as a founding faculty member. He was the chair of Environmental Science & Engineering program at KAUST from 2013 to 2017. He spent four years at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 2019 to 2023 while on a no-pay leave from KAUST. His research focuses on renewable energy driven clean water production and wastewater treatment and sustainable water-energy nexus. Dr. Wang is the Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He was awarded The Mohammed Bin Rashid Global Water Award (3rd cycle) in the category of ‘Distinguished Researcher’ in 2023, ‘Zijin Quanxing Distinguished Alumni Award’ of Nanjing University in 2021, 9th Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) in 2020, and Nanova Frontier Research Award from the Chinese-American Professors in Environmental Engineering and Science (CAPEES) in 2020. Dr. Wang serves as an Executive Editor and Associate Editor of Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T), an academic journal published by American Chemical Society (ACS) since 1967. He is a member of Advisory Committee on Water Supplies at Hong Kong.

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.

Tao Xie is Qiushi chair professor at the College of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University. He obtained his BS and MS degrees in Polymer Chemistry from Zhejiang University. From University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he received his Ph. D in Polymer Science & Engineering in 2001. He had since worked at the General Motors Global Research Lab and HRL Laboratories before returning to China in 2013. His current research interests include dynamic covalent polymer networks, shape memory polymers, and 3D/4D printing. He is the inventor of over 80 patent and a recipient of Omnova Solution award (2001), R&D 100 award (2013), and Wang Baoren Award (2019, Chinese Chemical Society). He is an elected fellow of ACS PMSE division and currently serves as an Associate Editor for ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.