Jiang Yuanping East China University of Technology, China Jiang Yuanping 
Ph. D
E-mail: jypjiang@ecut.edu.cn
East China University of Technology

Graduated from the School of Polymer Science and Engineering, Sichuan University in 2019,
Employed in School of Chemistry, Biology and Materials Science East China University of Technology form 2019.

Research area: structural design and processing of biodegradable polymer materials.

Relevant research results have been published on Composites Part A, Polymer Degradation and Stability, Composites Science and Technology, Polymer, Nanotechnology, and other well-known journals.
 

Shen Jing Northeast Forestry University, China Jing Shen was born on October 21, 1981 in Linyi (Shandong Province), China. He received BSc and MSc degrees from Qilu University of Technology in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He joined the Department of Pulp and Paper Engineering of Northeast Forestry University in 2005 as an assistant lecturer, and was promoted to lecturer in 2008. He received a PhD degree from Northeast Forestry University in 2010, and was promoted to associate professor and professor in 2010 and 2015, respectively. He was a postdoctoral fellow (August 2010 to November 2011) and a visiting scholar (July 2013 to October 2013, August 2016 to November 2016, January 2017 to March 2017) at University of New Brunswick, Canada. He won several Chinese academic awards and honors, including New Century Excellent Talents Program for Universities (2012), Nominated National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation (2012), Fok Ying Tung Prize for Young Professors (2018), Longjiang Scholars Program (2018), and Cai Lun Research Excellence Award for Young Professionals (2020). He is now a Professor of the Department of Pulp and Paper Engineering of Materials Science and Engineering College, Northeast Forestry University, China. His current research focuses on sustainable papermaking processes and paper-based functional products. 

Nie Jingyi Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, China The speaker Nie Jingyi received her bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University in 2012 and was directly recommended to study for a doctor. After receiving a doctor's degree in engineering in 2017, she worked in Shaanxi University of Science and Technology (SUST), and her main scientific research interests are paper-based air filter materials and high-performance fiber paper-based functional materials. Dr. Nie presided over and completed projects including China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and Shaanxi basic research plan of natural science. She published over 20 SCI scientific research as the first author or corresponding author, including high impact academic journals such as Nature Communications and Chemical Reviews. Dr. Nie won the first place in the 2019 teachers' lecture competition of Shaanxi University of science and technology, and was promoted to associate professor exceptionally. She also won the honorary title of "excellent teacher" in 2019. In 2020, she won the honorary title of "Shaanxi University Curriculum ideological and political teaching expert". 2021 she was selected into the "6th Young Talent Promotion Program of China Association for science and technology".

Yao Jianfeng Nanjing Forestry University, China Jianfeng Yao currently is a Professor in Chemical engineering at Nanjing Forestry University. He received his BE and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Nanjing University of Technology in China in 2000 and 2005, respectively. His research focuses on the preparation of cellulose-based functional materials as well as their applications as separation membranes and smart devices. He has published more than 200 journal articles in various fields of polymer science and engineering. His Google citation exceeds 9000 and his h-index is 57.

Yang Guang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Guang Yang is Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. She received PhD degree in Chemistry from Wuhan University, China. She remained the Distinguished Young Chutian Scholar and Outstanding Talents in Hubei province, as well as Alexander von Humboldt and JSPS fellow. She was also a visiting scholar in Asahi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Japan and University of Akron, USA. Currently, she is serving as the Deputy Director of the Cellulose division of the Chinese Chemical Society, Deputy Director of the Polymer Characterization Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society, and the council member of several committees, including the Nanocellulose and Materials Committee of China Paper Association, the Biomedical Polymer Materials Branch of China Biomaterials Society. She has authored more than 150 publications in high impact international peer-reviewed journals, edited 2 books, authored several chapters, and registered more than 20 authorized patents. Her current research focuses on the development of nanocellulose-based functional materials, design and fabrication of novel nano-drug transporters, 3D printing, nano-assembly of ordered materials, and tissue engineering.

Tian Jingyang East China University of Technology, China Dr. Tian graduated from South China University of Technology majoring in pulp and paper making. Young academic and technical leaders of Jiangxi province. He is now working in School of Chemistry, Biology and Materials Science East China University of Technology form 2018. His research areas mainly focus on the biomass carbon, high value utilization of lignin, porous carbon, supercapacitor and hydrogen evolution reaction. His relevant researches have been published on ACS Applied materials & interfaces, New J. Chem., CrystEngComm, Applied Surface Science, and other well-known journals.
 

Chen Chaoji Wuhan University, China Chaoji Chen, Professor of School of Resource and Environmental Sciences at the Wuhan University. Dr. Chen focuses on the engineering, functionalization and potential sustainable uses of biomass resources such as wood, bamboo, cellulose and chitin, toward addressing the material-energy-environmental challenges. As the first, co-first or corresponding author, Chen has published more than 80 SCI articles, including Nature (2), Science, Nature Reviews Materials, Nature Sustainability, among others. Chen has made several breakthroughs in the field of wood nanotechnology toward sustainability, including super wood that is as strong as steel but six-times lighter to replace steel, moldable wood that is as strong as Al alloy and highly formable, patternable transparent aesthetic wood, wood batteries and supercapacitors for green energy storage, wood solar evaporators for clean water, and biodegradable lignocellulosic bioplastics. His works have been widely cited by global researchers for over 12,000 times with an H-factor of 60 (google scholar), with 27 as ESI Highly Cited Paper, and broadly covered by Nature, Science, MIT Technology Review, VOA, New York Post, Scientific American, The Sun, Xinhua Net, The Indian Express, among others. In the past two years, he was featured in the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2020/2021 Lists and Career-Long List from 1960-2020 (Stanford University). Chen received multiple awards including 2021 MIT Technology Review “35 Innovators Under 35” Asia Pacific Award, 2021 China's Rising Start of Science and Technology Outstanding Impact Award, 2018 R&D 100 Awards, 2018 Invention of the Year of UMD in Physical Science, 100 Most Influential International Articles of China in 2015. He serves as the editorial board member or youth editorial board member of several journals including Batteries, The Innovation, SusMat, Environmental Science & Ecotechnology, and the advisory board member of the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN).

Qi Haisong South China University of Technology, China Haisong Qi received the Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry and Physics from Wuhan University. He had worked in the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry in Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena as a Postdoctoral Research Follow. He then became a scientific collaborator in the Department of Composite Materials in Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden. He is currently a professor in State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology. His research is mainly focused on chemistry and materials of natural polymer including cellulose regenerated materials, cellulose derivatives, cellulose nano-/micro-fibers and other biomass-based functional materials.

Fang Ju Southern University of Science and Technology, China Dr. Ju Fang (Research Assistant Professor) 
Faculty of Engineering, Department of Material Science and Engineering, 
Southern University of Science and Technology.

Dr. Fang studied resource science and engineering at South China University of Technology from 2005 to 2009. He completed his master’s degree in pulp and paper engineering there. From 2012, supported by the China Scholarship Council, he was worked as a Ph.D. studentship in Professor Tetsuo Kondo’s group, Kyushu University, Japan. He received his doctorate from the Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University in 2015. After returning to China, he worked as a postdoc in the Department of Material Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen. Since 2019, he has been a research assistant professor at Southern University of Science and Technology.

Inspired by nature, materials with biomimetic structures, morphologies, and functions can be achieved. It is essential to to clarify the relationship between the properties of materials and cellular functions. Base on these concepts, Fang and his co-works attempt to search for environmental and economic friendly strategies to construct biomimetic functional materials for tissue engineering.     

Huang Yong Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Zhu Hongli Northeastern University，USA Hongli (Julie) Zhu is currently an assistant professor at Northeastern University. Her group focuses on the research of electrochemical energy storage, biomass-derived sustainable materials, and emerging advanced manufacturing technologies. From 2012-2015, She works in the University of Maryland as postdoc, focusing on the research of flexible electronics and energy storage. From 2009 to 2011, She conducted research on materials science and processing of biodegradable and renewable biomaterials from natural wood in the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Her expertise is on the research of environmentally friendly natural materials, energy storage, design and application of bioresource materials in sustainable materials and advanced manufacturing. Her current google scholar citation is 12671H index 53. In energy storage, her group in Northeastern University works intensively on all-solid-state batteries and flow batteries. Here is her group webpage: https://coe.northeastern.edu/research/hongli_group/publication.html

Akira Isogai University of Tokyo, Japan 1985: Ph.D, Graduate School of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo
1985-1986: Postdoc, Division of Chemistry, The Institute of Paper Chemistry, Wisconsin, USA
1986-1994: Assistant Professor, Department of Biomaterial Sciences, The University of Tokyo
1989-1990: Visiting scientist, Forest Products Laboratory, USDA, Wisconsin, USA
1994-2003: Associate Professor, Department of Biomaterial Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2003-2020: Professor, Department of Biomaterial Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2020-: Special Research Professor, The University of Tokyo