Yong-Sheng Hu is a full professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IoP-CAS). He is working on advanced materials for long-life grid-scale stationary batteries and their energy storage mechanism, particularly focusing on Na based rechargeable batteries. He has published over 180 internationally refereed SCI publications including Journals such as Nature Mater., Nature Energy, Joule, Nature Commun., Science Adv., Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Energy Storage Mater., etc. These papers have been cited over 16000 times according to ISI web of science with an H-index of 62. He was selected as a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers in the field of Materials Science from 2014 to 2018. He also received several awards and honours, such as The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2017), The 14th China Youth Science and Technology Award (2016), Fellow of The Institute of Physics (UK) (2016), Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry (2015), Newton Advanced Fellowship of The Royal Society (2015), Tajima Prize (2015), etc.