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Marc Hillmyer received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Florida in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1994. After completing a postdoctoral research position in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science he joined the Chemistry faculty at Minnesota in 1997. He is currently the McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Chemistry and leads a research group focused on the synthesis and self-assembly of multifunctional polymers. In addition to his teaching and research responsibilities, Marc served as an associate editor for the ACS journal Macromolecules from 2008-2017 and is currently the editor-in-chief of Macromolecules. He is also the director of the Center for Sustainable Polymers headquartered at the University of Minnesota, a National Science Foundation Center for Chemical Innovation.

Sébastien Lecommandoux received his Ph.D. (1996) in Physical Chemistry from the University of Bordeaux. After a postdoctoral experience at the University of Illinois (UIUC, USA) in the group of Prof. Samuel I. Stupp, he started his academic career at the Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques as Associate Professor in 1998 and was promoted to Full Professor at Bordeaux INP in 2005. He is currently Director of the Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques (LCPO-CNRS) and is leading the group “Polymers Self-Assembly and Life Sciences”. His research interests include the design of bio-inspired polymers for biomaterials and pharmaceutical develoment, especially based on polypeptide, proteins and polysaccharide-based block copolymers self-assembly, the design of polymersomes for drug-delivery and theranostic, as well as biomimetic approaches toward design of synthetic viruses and artificial cells. He published over 220 publications in international journal, 6 book chapters and 12 patents (3 being licenced), with over 18000 citations (h-factor 67, Google Scholar). He is also co-director of the joint laboratory LCPO-L'OREAL. Sébastien Lecommandoux is recipient of the CNRS bronze medal (2004), Institut Universitaire de France Junior Chair (IUF 2007), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry RSC (2017), Seqens Award of the French Academy of Science (2019), Member of the Academia Europaea (2020), XingDa Lectureship Award from Peking University (2021). He has been Editor-in-Chief of Biomacromolecules (ACS) since 2020 after serving as Associate Editor since 2013. He is also in the Editorial Advisory Board of several international journals, including Bioconjugate Chemistry (ACS), Polymer Chemistry (RSC) and Biomaterials Science (RSC).

Dr. Hua Lu is currently a Boya Distinguished professor of the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University. He obtained his B.Sc. from Peking University in 2006 and PH.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. He worked as a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow at The Scripps Research Institute before he started independent research as an assistant professor of Peking University in 2014. He was promoted to associate professor with tenure and full professor in 2020 and 2022, respectively. His research focuses on the development of methodologies for the controlled synthesis and medical applications of polypeptides, sustainable polymers, and protein-polymer conjugates. He is a recipient NSFC Excellent Young Investigator (2017), CCS Polymer Division Young Scholar Award (2019), ACS PMSE Young Investigator (2020), NSFC Distinguished Young Investigator (2021), WuXi AppTech Scholar Award for Biological Chemistry Research (2022), and most recently, the CCS-RSC Prize for Young Chemists (2023).

Prof. Feng Yan received his Ph.D. degree in polymer science at Nanjing University in 2000, and was appointed as a professor at Soochow University in 2006. He received the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Outstanding Young Scholars in 2014, he won the first prize of science and technology of Jiangsu Province in 2017 (ranking first). He was selected into the "333 project" talent plan (the first level) in 2021. He has been the chief scientist of National Key Research and Development Program of China since 2021. His research interests and activities focus on the development of functional polymers, including ionogels, hydrogels, poly(ionic liquid)s, and polyelectrolytes for the applications in artificial ionic skins, strain sensors, antimicrobials, smart windows and electrochemical energy harvesting/generations. He is currently an associate editor of “Chemical Engineering Journal” (Elsevier).

Prof. Huabing Chen received his bachelor’s degree of Chemical Engineering in 2001 and then Ph. D. degree of Biopharmaceutics in 2008 at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. During 2008-2012, he worked at the Universty of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Mentor: Prof. Jinming Gao), and University of Tokyo (Mentor: Prof. Kazunori Kataoka) as a postdoctoral researcher. He was appointed to a full professor at College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University in 2012, and now focuses on the self-assembled nanomedicine for cancer imaging and therapy. Till now, he has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers, including Nat Commun, Adv Mater, JACS, and ACS Nano. Prof. Chen’s research has been funded by several key projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China including National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2021. Prof. Chen also serves as Guest editor for Sci Bull and Nanomaterials.

Lichen Yin is a Professor in the Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University. His research interest is focused on the engineering of polymeric and/or bio-inspired nanomaterials that can overcome multiple physiological barriers and deliver biomacromolecular drugs such as nucleic acids, proteins, and peptides. His research works to create new technologies and therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases, etc. He is the recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China.

Yaowen Li is a professor in the College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science of Soochow University and serves as a PhD advisor. He gained the distinguished Young Scholars of NSF. In recent years, as a corresponding author, he has published over 100 SCI papers in high-impact journals such as Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Energy, and Nat. Communications. He holds more than 10 authorized Chinese invention patents, with 7 of them successfully transferred, and has actively collaborated with industry in integrated research and development projects. His work has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the Second Prize of the Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Award (First Contributor, 2022), First Prize of the Jiangsu Provincial Higher Education Scientific Research Achievement Award (First Contributor, 2021), and the Top Ten Technological Advances in Jiangsu’s Industry Sector (First Contributor, 2023). He has been awarded various honors and funding titles, including the "NSF for Distinguished Young Scholars," the "National Excellent Young Scientists Fund," the "Jiangsu Excellent Young Scientists Fund," the "Zhongying Young Scholar Award," and the "Suzhou Outstanding Educator Award." Professor Li also holds several key academic and professional roles. He is a member of the Solar Materials Expert Committee of the Chinese Materials Research Society, a committee member of the Optoelectronic Materials and Devices Division of the Chinese Society of Optical Engineering, a youth editorial board member for Sci. China Chem., associate editor of Nano Select (a Wiley flagship journal), a featured editorial board member for Chin. J. Chem., associate director of the Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Carbon Negative Technologies, and a council member of the Suzhou Chemical and Chemical Engineering Society.

Professor Huanli Sun obtained her B.S. and Ph.D degrees from Soochow University in 2008 and 2013, respectively, under the supervision of Prof. Fenghua Meng and Zhiyuan Zhong. Afterwards, she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow with Prof. Frank Caruso and Greg Qiao at The University of Melbourne, Australia. She then joined the Biomedical Polymers Laboratory at Soochow University in Sep. 2015. She was honored as a Young ChangJiang Scholar by the Ministry of Education in 2024. Her current research focuses on the development of antibody-engineered polymersomal nanomedicines and dual-drug loaded polymeric nanomedicines for targeted and synergistic tumor therapy. She has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers with a total citation of over 3,100. She serves as the associate editor of "Frontiers in Biomaterials Science" and has been an assistant for the associate editor of "Biomacromolecules" and "Journal of Controlled Release" from 2015 to 2022.

Zhao Wang received his B.S. degree at East China University of Science and Technology and M.S. degree in the University of Akron. In 2013, he moved to University of California, San Diego for his Ph.D. study. In 2018, Zhao joined Aaron Esser-Kahn's group as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, where he is exploring mechanically controlled polymerization and material strengthening. He joined Soochow University in 2021 as professor of polymer chemistry. He received the excellent young scholars award (overseas) from the NSFC. He was the young editorial board member of Chinese Chemical Letters. His current research focuses on the synthesis, modification and recycling of polymers by mechanochemical tools.

Sunting Xuan obtained herB.S. in Chemistry from Lanzhou University in 2010. She then went to the UnitedStates and joined the graduate program in the Department of Chemistry atLouisiana State University, where she received her Ph.D. degree in PolymerChemistry in 2016. She then became a postdoc at the Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory from 2017 to 2020. She is currently an associate professor ofCollege of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at SoochowUniversity. Her current research focuses on the design, synthesis andstructure-property investigation of bioinspired polymers.