Zhichuan is an associate professor in School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. He received his PhD degree in Electroanalytical Chemistry at 2008 and B.S. degree in Chemistry at 2002 from Lanzhou University, China. His PhD training was received in Lanzhou University (2002-2004), Institute of Physics, CAS (2004-2005), and Brown University (2005-2007). Since 2007, he worked in State University of New York at Binghamton as a Research Associate and from 2009 he worked in Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Dr. Xu is member of International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), The Electrochemistry Society (ECS), and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was awarded Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in Nov. 2017. He served as a guest editor for the special issue ICEI2016 of Electrochimica Acta and an associate editor for Nano-Micro Letters. He is also the development editor for Current Opinion in Electrochemistry and the vice president of ECS Singapore Section. Dr Xu is 2018 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science.