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Dr. Elsa Reichmanis is Professor and Carl Robert Anderson Chair in Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Lehigh University. Her research interests include the chemistry, properties and application of materials technologies for photonic and electronic applications. She has had impact in the design of new imaging chemistries for advanced lithographic applications, and designed one of the first, readily accessible and manufacturable polymers for advanced silicon device manufacturing using 193 nm lithography. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 1995 and the National Academy of Inventors in 2021. She served as 2003 President of the American Chemical Society (ACS), is a past member of the Bureau of the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the Board of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). She currently serves as a Member of the ACS Governing Board for Publishing, the Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences and the NAE Council. She is the recipient of several awards, including the 2022 John M. Prausnitz AIChE Institute Lecture Award, the 2018 AIChE Margaret H. Rousseau Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement by a Woman Chemical Engineer, the ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences (2024), the ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials (2018), and the ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science (1999), the IUPAC Distinguished Woman in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Award (2013), the ASM Engineering Materials Achievement Award (1996), the Society of Chemical Industry’s Perkin Medal (2001)  and the Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award (1993). She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, ACS, AIChE, the Materials Research Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry; and she is an elected Member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. In other service, she is an Executive Editor of the ACS Journal, Chemistry of Materials.

Dr. Xike Gao obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in 2008. He joined the faculty team of Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), CAS as an associate professor from October 2008. In 2014, he was promoted to a full professor at SIOC. His research interests include molecular design and synthesis of p-functional materials and their applications in organic optoelectronic and energy devices, his group recently focuses on Azulene Chemistry.

Dr. Jennifer L. Schaefer is the Sheehan Family Collegiate Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Her research group investigates soft materials and electrochemical phenomena with relevance to electrochemical energy storage and generation devices. She is the Project Director for a Department of Education funded Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need fellow training program. Dr. Schaefer completed undergraduate and Master's degrees at Widener University. Her doctoral study in chemical engineering was at Cornell University under the advisement of Prof. Lynden Archer. She then was an NRC postdoctoral research associate at NIST before joining Notre Dame in 2015. Dr. Schaefer has been recognized on the AIChE 35 Under 35 list and as an ECS Toyota Young Investigator and NSF CAREER awardee.

Dr. 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, and was appointed as a professor at Donghua University Since 2017. 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 ionogels, poly(ionic liquid)s, and polyelectrolytes for the applications in artificial strain sensors and electrochemical energy harvesting/generations. He is currently an editor of “Chemical Engineering Journal” (Elsevier).

Dr. Megan L. Robertson is a Cullen College of Engineering Professor in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston, where she is a leading researcher in the field of polymer sustainability. She is the project director for the recently awarded Welch Foundation Catalyst for Discovery Center for Plastic Circularity. Prior to her tenure at UH, Dr. Robertson earned her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, where her research focused on the design of polymer compatibilizers. Dr. Roberston also conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Minnesota. She is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society and has served in leadership for the ACS Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division. Currently, Dr. Robertson serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Macromolecules.

Dr. Weiwei Zuo is a Professor in the College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University. He is the key member a research team, being in charge of the National Key Research and Development Program of China that deals with the circularity of polyester and cotton materials. Prior to his independent research career at Donghua University, Dr. Zuo received his PhD at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where his research focused on the development of olefin polymerization catalysts. Dr. Zuo also conducted post-doctoral researches at the University of Strasbourg, France and University of Toronto, Canada, where he conducted the researches on the development of chiral 3d transition metal catalyst for asymmetric hydrogenation of polar double bonds.

Dr. Marc A. 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.

Dr. Xuesong Jiang is a distinguished professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), where he leads a research group of functional photopolymers for surface and interface, and is deputy dean of School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (SCCE) in SJTU.  From 2009 to 2010, he worked as Postdoctoral in Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. He got some awards such as Hitachi-Chemical Outstanding Researcher of Oversea, and Outstanding Young Scientist Foundation of NSFC. His research is focused on surface pattern, especially nano and micro wrinkles, and their applications, and developed a series of methods for dynamic and 2D ordered wrinkles.

Dr. 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 on the Editorial Advisory Board of several international journals, including Bioconjugate Chemistry (ACS), Polymer Chemistry (RSC) and Biomaterials Science (RSC).

Dr. Qigang Wang received his bachelor’s degree in 1999 and Master’s degree in 2002 from East China University of Science and Technology. He then obtained his Ph.D. in 2005 from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Supervisor: Prof. Qiuming Gao). He was the postdoctor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2005-2007 (Supervisor: Prof. Bing Xu). He continued the postdoctor trainning at The University of Tokyo and Riken from 2005 to 2011 (Supervisor: Prof. Takuzo Aida). He is a currently a professor in the School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tongji University.

Dr. Liping Zhu obtained her Ph.D degree in Materials Science at Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA in 2015, where her research focused on the design of responsive MRI contrast agents. From 2015 to 2017, she worked as an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemistry at University of Southern Indiana. Then she started her postdoc research in the Center for Advanced Low-dimension Materials at Donghua University (DHU), Shanghai, China and joined the College of Materials and Science Engineering at DHU as an associate professor in 2021. Her research interests include the design and development of fibrous membranes, hydrogels, and binders with bio-based and responsive polymer materials for applications in water treatment, tissue engineering and green energy.

Dr. Runhui Liu earned his Ph.D from the Department of Chemistry at Purdue University in 2009. Subsequently, he conducted postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2009 to 2014. He is currently a distinguished professor at East China University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on addressing two critical challenges in the field of biomaterials, drug-resistant microbial infections and biocompatibility of materials. Dr. Liu has established new synthetic strategy for efficient synthesis of amino acid type polymers. He put forward the strategy to mimic natural peptides with amino acid polymers and address the prominent shortcomings of natural peptides such as easy proteolysis. He has achieved important breakthrough in antimicrobial (including drug-resistant pathogens) and biocompatible materials. In recent years, as the corresponding author, he has published over 70 papers in Journals including Nat. Microbiol., Nat. Protoc., Science Adv., Nat. Commun.(6 papers)、J. Am. Chem. Soc.(6 papers), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.(5 papers) and Adv. Mater.. Dr. Liu has been awarded with the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the Youth Thousand Talents Plan, oriental scholar, Shanghai young excellent academic scholar, and the excellent young scholar by Chinese society of biomaterials biomedical polymer materials division.

Dr. Stuart J. Rowan is the Barry L. MacLean Professor of Molecular Engineering and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. He is the Director of the University of Chicago’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) and has a staff appointment at Argonne National Labs. Stuart was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and grew up in Troon on Scotland’s west coast.  He received his B.Sc. (Hons.) (in 1991) and PhD (with D.D. MacNicol in 1995) from the University of Glasgow. He moved to the Chemistry Department at the University of Cambridge to work with Jeremy K. M. Sanders. He continued his postdoctoral studies with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998. In 1999 he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2005 he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure and became a Full Professor in 2008. In 2009 he was named the Kent H. Smith Professor of Engineering and in 2016 he moved to the University of Chicago. He is a NSF CAREER and NSF Special Creativity awardee, received the Morley Medal (ACS) in 2013, the CWRU Distinguished University Award in 2015, and the Herman Mark Scholar Award (ACS) in 2015. He is an ACS Fellow, an ACS POLY Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of ACS Macro Letters. His group works on supramolecular polymers, dynamic covalent polymers, self-healing materials, responsive adhesives, sustainable plastics, nanocellulose, polymers for battery applications, biomaterials and developing new synthetic methods for the construction of complex polymeric architectures.

Dr. Zhengwei You is a full professor and the Chair of the Department of Composite Materials at Donghua University. He received his degrees of B.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2000 and Ph.D. from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2007. He conducted his postdoctoral research at Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining Donghua University in 2013, he was an innovation manager in Bayer MaterialScience. His current research focuses on elastomers, dynamic polymers, and biomaterials. In past five years, as the corresponding author, he has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as Nat. Med., Nat. Commun. (4), Sci. Adv., Adv. Mater. (9), PNAS, Acc. Chem. Res. and been granted more than 40 patents. He won Shanghai Top ten Youth Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award and was selected in the Shanghai Leading Talent Program at 2023, and currently serves as the vice chairman of Biomaterials Advanced Manufacturing Branch of Chinese Society of Biomaterials, associate editor of the journal Smart Materials in Medicine, editorial board member of the journal Bioactive Materials and Chinese Journal of Polymer Science.

Dr. Guoyin Chen is an associate professor in College of Materials Science and Engineering at Donghua University. He obtained his PhD degree in College of Materials Science and Engineering from Donghua University in 2022. And B.S. degree in Material Science and Engineering from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in 2016. His research interests focus on the constructing of multifunctional hydrogel fibers.