Dr. Xiulei (David) Ji graduated from Jilin University with B.Sc. in Chemistry in 2003.  He obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Chemistry under the guidance of Prof. Linda F. Nazar in the University of Waterloo, 2009.  During 2010-2012, he was a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof. Galen D. Stucky’s group in the University of California, Santa Barbara.  He is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Oregon State University.  His primary research interest is to elucidate the basic structure-property correlation for electrode materials for sustainable energy storage.  He has published 94 articles, in journals, including Nature Materials, Nature Chemistry, Nature Energy, J. Am. Chem. Soc., and Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., with total citations over 11,000 times (Google Scholar). He received 2016 NSF CAREER Award, and 2010 NSERC Postdoc Fellowship.  Group website: http://jigroup.chem.oregonstate.edu/