Zhen Li received his BSc and PhD degrees from Wuhan University (WHU) in China in 1997 and 2002, respectively, under the supervision of Prof. Jingui Qin. In 2003-2004, he worked at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in the group of Prof. Ben Zhong Tang. In 2010, he worked at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the group of Prof. Seth Marder. He has been a full professor at WHU since 2006 and a chair professor at Tianjin University since 2018. His research interests are in the development of organic molecules and polymers with new structures and new functions for organic electronics and photonics. He has authored over 200 scientific publications and has received numerous scientific awards, including Chinese Chemical Society Award for Outstanding Young Chemist (2007), National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars (2013), Young and Middle-aged Innovation Leading Talents (2015), Ten Thousand People Plan of Central Organization Department (2017), and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (2017).Qianqian Li received her BSc degree from Hubei University, China, in 2004 and then obtained her PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. Zhen Li at Wuhan University in 2009. After two years postdoc research at Department of Physics, she became a faculty at College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences in Wuhan University, and was promoted to full professor in 2018. In 2016-2017, she worked as a visiting scholar in University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests focus on the design and synthesis of new opto-electronic functional materials.
