
Dr. Liqiang Mai is Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor of Materials Physics and Chemistry, Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Science Fund of China, Dean for International Affairs of International School of Materials Science and Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology. He received Ph.D. degree from WUT in 2004 and carried out postdoctoral research in Prof. Zhonglin Wang's group at Georgia Institute of Technology (2006-2007). He worked as an advanced research scholar in Prof. Charles M. Lieber's group at Harvard University (2008-2011) and Prof. Peidong Yang’s group at University of California, Berkeley (2017). Prof. Liqiang Mai is mainly engaged in research field of nano energy materials and micro/nano devices. He has published over 280 papers tagged by SCI in leading journals such as Nature, Nat. Nanotechnol., Nat. Commun., Joule, Adv. Mater., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem., Acc. Chem. Res., Energy Environ. Sci., etc. He has conducted more than 30 research projects as project principal such as National Basic Research Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc. He is the winner of China Youth Science and Technology Award, and Guanghua Engineering Award, Nanoscience Research Leader award, etc. He is the guest editor of Adv. Mater., and serves on the Editorial and Advisory Boards of Joule (Cell press), Adv. Electron. Mater., Nano Res. and Sci. China Mater.