Liqiang Mai, Chair professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), Dean of School of Materials Science and Engineering at WUT, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He received his Ph.D. from WUT in 2004 and carried out his postdoctoral research at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006-2007. He worked as an advanced research scholar at Harvard University in 2008-2011 and University of California, Berkeley in 2017.

His current research interests focus on new nanomaterials for electrochemical energy storage and micro/nano energy devices. He has published over 380 papers in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, Nat. Nanotechnol., Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Chem. Rev., etc. He has conducted more than 30 research projects as project principal such as National Basic Research Program of China, the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation, etc. He is the winner of the Second Prize of National Natural Science Award, the First Prize of Natural Science Award by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Innovation Award of The Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation, Highly Cited Researchers of Clarivate in the world, Highly Cited Author of Royal Society of Chemistry in China, China Youth Science and Technology Award, and Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Prize, the EEST2018 Research Excellence Award, etc. He is the associate editor of J. Energy Storage and the guest editor of Chem. Rev., Adv. Mater., and serves on the Editorial and Advisory Boards of Joule (Cell press), Acc. Chem. Res., ACS Energy Lett., Adv. Electron. Mater., Nano Res. and Sci. China Mater.