American Physical Society, USA
Hari received his Master's in Science degree from Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 2001 and earned his Ph.D. from Boston College, Massachusetts in 2008. Following that, he assumed the role of a postdoctoral research associate at the Theoretical Division and Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research delved into correlated electron systems, two-dimensional materials, and multi-dimensional data visualization. He has more than 12 years of editorial experience as an Associate Editor of Physical Review B, Physical Review Research, and Physical Review Materials. He became the Chief Editor of Physical Review Materials in 2023.
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Ram Seshadri is the Fred and Linda R. Wudl Professor of Materials Science and a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), with appointments in the Materials Department and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He received his Ph.D. in solid state chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science in 1995. He joined UCSB in 2002 and has served as the Director of the National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center since 2015. His research focuses on understanding structure–composition–property relationships in functional inorganic and hybrid materials. Ram is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Neutron Scattering Society of America. He also serves as the Editor of Annual Reviews of Materials Research.
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Athanasios Chantis, Contributing EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Athanasios received a Ph.D. in materials science from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 2002. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University and later as a Seaborg Institute Fellow at the Theoretical Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory. He worked with both material scientists and physicists, experimentalists and theorists, on a variety of topics including spintronics, semiconductor physics, strongly correlated materials, actinides, and the development of first-principles methods for the electronic structure of solids. He has many years of Editorial experience as an Associate Editor of Physical Review B, which he joined in 2010. Since 2022, he has been an Associate Executive Editor for APS. |
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Surajit Dhara, Associate EditorUniversity of Hyderabad, India Surajit Dhara is a Professor in the School of Physics at the University of Hyderabad. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, in 2004, followed by postdoctoral research at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research interests lie in experimental soft condensed matter physics, with a focus on liquid crystals, colloids, active matter, and the photonics of soft materials. He has received several prestigious recognitions, including the Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Physical Sciences awarded by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India, and the Michi Nakata Prize from the International Liquid Crystal Society for early-career achievement. He is an elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. |
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Alex Ganose, Associate EditorImperial College London, United Kingdom Alex Ganose is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Modelling at University College London in 2018, after which he undertook postdoctoral research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the Materials Science Division. His work focuses on using computational materials chemistry, machine learning, and high-throughput calculations to design new materials for energy applications. He has received a Springer Thesis Prize and a Scopus Early Career Award in the area of Physical Sciences. |
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Margaret Hudson, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Margaret received her B.S. in Chemistry from Sewanee: the University of the South in 2014 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Chicago in 2019. She did her postdoctoral research at North Carolina State University. She worked on many areas of Materials Chemistry including the synthesis and characterization of inorganic materials, photophysics, and colloidal quantum dots. She joined the Physical Review family of journals in 2021. |
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Junjie Li, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Junjie Li received his M.S. in optics in 2005 from Wuhan University and earned a PhD in condensed matter physics in 2011 from Florida State University. He worked as a Research Associate at the University of Illinois, followed by a postdoctoral research associate position at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Later, he was converted to a Staff Scientist at Brookhaven. With a strong background in experimental materials physics, optics, and instrumentation, Junjie joined the Physical Review family of journals in 2023. |
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Tianhan Liu, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Tianhan received her Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from Florida State University in 2021. Prior to joining Physical Review Letters and Physical Review Materials in 2024, she worked as a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on experimental studies of quantum transport in hybrid materials, interfaces, and devices. |
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Steven May, Associate EditorDrexel University, USA Steven May is a Professor and Department Head of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University, having joined the faculty in 2009. He received a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University in 2007, after which he pursued postdoctoral research at Argonne National Laboratory in the Materials Science Division. His research focuses on thin film synthesis and characterization of materials with functional electronic and magnetic properties, such as complex oxide heterostructures, intermetallic topological semimetals, and MXenes. He has received the NSF CAREER award, an ARO Young Investigator Award, the Ross Coffin Purdy Award from the American Ceramic Society, and the Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers from ASM International. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. |
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Cheng Song, Associate EditorTsinghua University, China Cheng Song is a Professor at Tsinghua University and the Director of the Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Ministry of Education. He received a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2009. His current research interests include spintronic materials and devices, magnon-phonon coupling for magnetic sensors and antennas. He is a recipient of the Chinese National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the First Prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education of China, and the Xplorer Prize of the New Cornerstone Science Foundation. |
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Lijun Zhang, Associate EditorJilin University, China Lijun Zhang is the Tang Aoqing Distinguished Professor and Dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Jilin University. He received his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from Jilin University in 2008. Subsequently, he conducted postdoctoral research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder before joining the Jilin University faculty in 2014. His research focuses on designing new semiconductors and enhancing material performance for diverse optoelectronic applications by developing integrated infrastructures combining high-throughput calculations and experiments, materials databases, and machine learning algorithms. He is a recipient of the Chinese National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the Computational Materials Science Award from the Chinese Materials Research Society. |
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Veronica AugustynNorth Carolina State University, USA Veronica Augustyn is the Jake and Jennifer Hooks Distinguished Scholar in Materials Science and Engineering and Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University. She received her B.S. from the University of Arizona and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, both in Materials Science and Engineering. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Texas Materials Institute, University of Texas at Austin. She is the recipient of several awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER, the Department of Energy Early Career, and Sloan Research Fellowship. Her research focuses on the electrochemistry of materials for energy and environmental applications, including interfacial phenomena, insertion mechanisms, and confinement effects. |
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Wenzhong BaoFudan University, China Wenzhong Bao is a full professor in the School of Microelectronics at Fudan University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside in 2011, where he studied in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He subsequently held postdoctoral positions at the University of Maryland, College Park from 2011 to 2014 and at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology from 2014 to 2015. His current research interests involve emerging semiconductors and their applications in next-generation electrical, optoelectrical, and energy devices. He was awarded the 2016 International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Young Scientist Prize (C10) and the 2017 Hong Kong Qiushi Outstanding Young Scientist Prize. |
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Anjan BarmanS.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India Anjan Barman is Senior Professor and Dean (Faculty) at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Jadavpur University in 1999. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Physics (UK), and a recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship and the MRSI Medal. His research interests include spintronics, ultrafast spin dynamics, quantum and hybrid magnonic systems, spin–orbit-coupled and topological quantum materials, and nanomagnetism. He serves on the editorial boards of npj Spintronics, Nanotechnology, and Scientific Reports. |
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Kirill BelashchenkoUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Kirill Belashchenko is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received his M.S. in Physics of Metals in 1996 from the National University of Science and Technology MISIS and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics in 1999 from the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" in Moscow, Russia. He held research appointments at Ames Laboratory and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln before joining the faculty at UNL in 2005. He received a Cottrell Scholar award from the Research Corporation in 2008. His research interests focus on computational magnetism and spintronics. |
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Tay-Rong ChangNational Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Tay-Rong Chang is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, and Principal Investigator of the Tainan Hub at the National Center for Theoretical Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. His contributions to condensed matter physics have been recognized through several honors, including the National Science and Technology Council Outstanding Research Award, and he has been named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. His research interests include topological quantum materials, quantum geometric phenomena, and first-principles materials design, with a focus on discovering and understanding emergent quantum states in real materials. |
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Kwang-yong ChoiSungkyunkwan University, South Korea Dr. Kwang-yong Choi is a Professor at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea. He earned his Ph.D. from Aachen Technical University, Germany, in 2004. As a 2008 Humboldt Fellow, his career includes postdoctoral research at the Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, alongside a professorship at Chung-Ang University. Dr. Choi’s research advances our understanding of topological and correlated quantum matter through material design and state-of-the-art spectroscopy. |
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Emmanuel ClouetFrench Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France Emmanuel Clouet is a Research Director in the Physical Metallurgy Laboratory at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). He joined CEA in 2004, following appointments as a visiting scientist at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2004 from École Centrale Paris, for research conducted at CEA and at Pechiney (now Constellium). His research focuses on elucidating the physical mechanisms governing microstructure evolution and mechanical properties in metals and alloys used as structural materials, with particular emphasis on crystal plasticity, irradiation effects, and precipitation phenomena. His work combines numerical simulations and multiscale modeling, spanning from the atomic to the mesoscopic scale, in close integration with experimental investigations. He has served as an editor of Acta Materialia and Scripta Materialia since 2016. |
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Zeyu Deng, Early Career Board MemberNational University of Singapore, Singapore Zeyu (Jerry) Deng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his M.Phil. (2015) and Ph.D. (2019) in Materials Science and Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge, followed by postdoctoral research at NUS before joining the faculty. His research focuses on computational materials science, multiscale modelling, and high-performance computing for energy materials. He is a recipient of the Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award (2018) and the Lee Kuan Yew Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022). |
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Kevin DorfmanUniversity of Minnesota, USA Kevin Dorfman is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering in 2002 from MIT, where he worked with Howard Brenner. Prof. Dorfman is a Fellow of the APS (Division of Polymer Physics) and the recipient of numerous awards, including a Packard Fellowship and the Colburn Award of the AIChE. His research focuses on polymer physics, using a wide range of computational approaches to model both synthetic polymers, in particular block polymers, and DNA. |
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Sergei DudarevUK Atomic Energy Authority, United Kingdom Sergei Dudarev is a Senior Fellow at the UK Atomic Energy Authority. After receiving an M.Sc in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, and Ph.D. and D.Sc in Theoretical Physics from Moscow Engineering Physics University, he held research and teaching appointments at Oxford before joining UKAEA in 2000, where he leads research in computational modeling of fusion reactor materials. He is a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, and a visiting professor at Oxford University and Imperial College London. His research spans statistical theory of diffraction and microscopy, electronic structure, and dynamic models for defects and dislocations. |
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Bruce D. GaulinMcMaster University, Canada Bruce D. Gaulin is Distinguished University Professor and Brockhouse Chair in the Physics of Materials at McMaster University. He obtained his BSc from McGill, his Ph.D. from McMaster, and worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory before joining McMaster’s faculty in 1988. Gaulin’s scientific expertise is in the application of neutron scattering techniques to problems in quantum materials, and in the materials synthesis and single crystal growth of new materials. Gaulin’s career recognitions to date include Sloan and Killam Fellowships, and Fellowships in the American Physical Society, the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP), and the Royal Society of Canada. He received the CAP Brockhouse Medal for Excellence in Condensed Matter Physics in 2011 and the CAP Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics in 2026. |
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Arindam GhoshIndian Institute of Science, India Arindam Ghosh did his Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, following which he worked in Cambridge University, UK, as a postdoctoral researcher. He returned to IISc, Bangalore in 2005, becoming a full Professor in 2017. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow in Nanotechnology at the T. J. Watson Research Center of IBM. Arindam is a low temperature experimental physicist with specialization in the physics of semiconductors, the interplay of Coulomb interaction and disorder in low-dimensional systems, and noise in quantum devices. He has received numerous prizes, including in December 2020 the Infosys Prize for Physical Sciences for his development of atomically thin two-dimensional semiconductors to build a new generation of functional electronic, thermoelectric and optoelectronic devices. |
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Daniel S. GianolaUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, USA Daniel S. Gianola is a Professor in the Materials Department at the University of California Santa Barbara. Dr. Gianola joined the Materials Department at UCSB in early 2016 after holding positions of Associate Professor and Skirkanich Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a BS degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining the University of Pennsylvania, Gianola was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) in Germany. His research interests include the development and characterization of structural materials, with emphasis on deformation mechanisms at the micro- and nanoscale, particularly using in situ nanomechanical testing techniques. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER, Department of Energy Early Career, and TMS Early Career Faculty Fellow awards. |
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Berit Goodge, Early Career Board MemberMax Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany Berit Goodge is currently a Minerva Group Leader in the Physics of Quantum Materials Department at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany. She earned her B.A. in physics from Carleton College followed by her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University, after which she was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in chemistry and physics at the University of California Berkeley. Her research interests lie in leveraging atomic-scale insights from advanced electron microscopy imaging and spectroscopy to understand — and ultimately design — new quantum materials. She has been recognized as a Schmidt Science Fellow, Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science Webb Fellow, a Microscopy and Microanalysis Student Scholar, an American Physical Society Division of Materials Physics Ovshinky Student Awardee, and a Materials Research Society Graduate Student Silver Awardee. |
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Axel GroßUlm University, Germany Axel Groß is Professor for Theoretical Chemistry at Ulm University (Germany) and Principal Investigator at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) Electrochemical Energy Storage. He studied Physics at the University of Göttingen and obtained his Ph.D. in 1993 from the Technical University of Munich. After five years as a Staff Scientist at the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society in Berlin, he became Associate Professor for Theoretical Physics at the Technical University of Munich before joining Ulm University in 2004. His research interests are based on the atomistic first-principles modeling of structures and processes in electrochemical energy storage and conversion, with a particular focus on heterogeneous and electro-catalysis and batteries. |
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Jiaqing HeSouthern University of Science and Technology, China Jiaqing He is a Chair professor in the Department of Physics at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He received his joint Ph.D. in Physics from both Juelich Research Center and Wuhan University in 2004. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a research assistant professor at Northwestern University, and a professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is a recipient of the Natural Science Award of The Ministry of Education of China and the Outstanding Talents Training Fund in Shenzhen. His research interests include transmission electron microscopy, thermoelectric materials, and structure and property relationship. |
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Matthew HelgesonUniversity of California Santa Barbara, USA Matthew Helgeson is Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 2004, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware in 2009. He performed postdoctoral research at MIT before joining the faculty at UCSB. Helgeson’s research focuses on understanding and engineering flow and thermal processes for the development of soft materials, and developing in situ characterization methods to support these efforts. His research has been recognized with a number of awards, including Early Career Awards from both the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy, the Victor K. LaMer Award and Unilever Award from the American Chemical Society, and the Neutron Scattering Society of America Science Prize. |
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Kui JinChinese Academy of Sciences, China Kui Jin is the director of the National Lab for Superconductivity (NLSC) at Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOPCAS). He received his Ph.D. from IOPCAS in 2008 and worked as a Research Associate at University of Maryland, College Park until 2012. He then joined IOPCAS and set up his research team in NLSC. His research group is devoted to synthesizing high-quality superconducting films and solving relevant key scientific issues in both physics and applications. They established a unique high-throughput superconductivity research paradigm, and successfully disclosed a common scaling of the strange metal scattering in high-temperature superconductors. |
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Seán Kavanagh, Early Career Board MemberUniversity of Cambridge, United Kingdom Seán Kavanagh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He completed his undergraduate studies at Trinity College Dublin in his native Ireland, earned his Ph.D. through University College London and Imperial College London, and held a Fellowship at the Harvard University Center for the Environment. He was awarded the 2024 IOP and APS Computational Physics thesis prizes and was named a 2025 JPhys Energy Emerging Leader. Seán leads the Simulation of Advanced Materials (SAM) Lab, studying defects and disorder in materials, including methodological and software developments as well as machine-learning approaches. |
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Mingda LiMassachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Mingda Li is the Class of 1947 Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He earned his B.S. in Engineering Physics from Tsinghua University in 2009 and his Ph.D. in Nuclear Science and Engineering from MIT in 2015. Following his doctoral studies, he conducted postdoctoral research in MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Li's research focuses on materials characterization with advanced spectroscopy techniques, quantum materials for energy harvesting applications, and artificial intelligence. |
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Kai LiuGeorgetown University, USA Kai Liu is a Professor and McDevitt Chair in Physics at Georgetown University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1998, and did postdoctoral research at UC San Diego. He joined the UC Davis faculty in 2001, and moved to Georgetown University in 2018. His research interest is in experimental studies of magnetism and spin transport in nanostructured materials. He is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and a UC Davis Chancellor's Fellowship. He is also an elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), American Physical Society, IEEE, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Academy of Inventors. He served as the General Chair for the 2016 MMM. He is currently the Chair of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission on Magnetism (2021-2024). |
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Iwao MatsudaUniversity of Tokyo, Japan Iwao Matsuda is a professor in the Institute for Solid State Physics at the University of Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in 2001 from the Department of Chemistry, School of Science at the University of Tokyo. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Physik-Institut at University of Zurich and a research associate at Department of Physics in School of Science at the University of Tokyo. His research focuses on syntheses of novel atomic layers and developments of advanced spectroscopy techniques using X-rays. His works have been recognized with awards, including the academic award from the Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science. |
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Julia MundyHarvard University, USA Julia Mundy is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Harvard University. She received an AB/AM in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University. Following her Ph.D. studies, she spent a year at the US Department of Education as the APS/AIP STEM Education Fellow. After a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley, she returned to Harvard University where she began as an assistant professor in 2018. Prof. Mundy's research program combines atomically-precise oxide molecular-beam epitaxy with picoscale electron microscopy imaging to design, synthesize and probe new quantum materials. She is a recipient of the 2018 APS George E. Valley, Jr. Prize for exceptional contributions by an early career physicist, the 2019 IUPAP Young Scientist award in the field of magnetism and is a Moore Fellow in Materials Synthesis. |
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Katharine PageUniversity of Tennessee, USA Katharine Page is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received her Ph.D. in 2008 from the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, after which she was a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She maintains a Joint Faculty Appointment with the Neutron Scattering Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where she worked before joining UT in 2019. Her research is focused on garnering new insights into complex functional materials, through advances in structural characterization techniques. This includes ventures to understand and exploit local to long-range ordering in bulk and nano ferroelectric ceramics, nanoscale catalysts, and energy conversion and storage materials. She is a 2015 recipient of the Department of Energy Early Career Award and a 2019 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). |
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Nicola PerryUniversity of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA Nicola Perry is an associate professor in Materials Science and Engineering at UIUC. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2009, investigating interfacial transport in nano-ionics. She held postdoctoral positions at Northwestern and then jointly between Kyushu University and MIT, on inverse design of p-type transparent conductors, synthesis of missing materials, and dynamic behavior of mixed ionic/electronic conductors. From 2014-2017 she served as a World Premier Initiative assistant professor in the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research at Kyushu University and a Research Affiliate at MIT. She joined UIUC in 2018, where her solid-state-ionics group targets point defect-mediated properties in opto-electro-chemo-mechanically active oxides and halides for electrochemical energy applications. Research recognitions include an NSF CAREER Award, DOE Early Career Award, J. Bruce Wagner Jr. Award from the Electrochemical Society, and the Edward C. Henry and Richard M. Fulrath Awards from the American Ceramic Society. |
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Miha RavnikUniversity of Ljubljana, Slovenia Prof. Miha Ravnik is Head of the Soft Matter Physics Group, Head of the Physics Department, and Vice-dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Ljubljana. He is also a research councillor at the Jožef Stefan Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2009, after which he pursued postdoctoral research at University of Oxford. His expertise lies in modelling and theory of soft matter and complex systems. His research interests include complex fluids, active matter, colloids, liquid crystals, optical and photonic anisotropic media, topological materials, and protein biophysics. |
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Minhua ShaoHong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Minhua Shao is the Cheong Ying Chan Professor of Energy Engineering and Environment, Head and Chair Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is also the Director of the HKUST Energy Institute. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from Xiamen University, and a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He joined UTC Power in 2007 and was promoted to UTC Technical Fellow in 2012. In 2013, he joined Ford Motor Company to conduct research on lithium-ion batteries. He then joined HKUST in 2014. He is the Technical Editor of Journal of the Electrochemical Society and Fellow of the Electrochemical Society |
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Bahadur SinghTata Institute of Fundamental Research, India Dr. Bahadur Singh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, where he leads the Quantum Materials Design Group. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from IIT Kanpur (India) in 2015 and subsequently held postdoctoral positions at NUS Singapore, Shenzhen University (China), and Northeastern University (USA) before joining TIFR in 2020. His research focuses on theoretical condensed matter physics, particularly topological and quantum materials, with emphasis on first-principles electronic-structure calculations and spectroscopic properties of quantum states of matter. He is a recipient of the DAE-SSPS Young Achiever Award 2025 and the HPE Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam HPC & AI Award 2026 for contributions to large-scale first-principles HPC simulations and predictive computational discovery and design of quantum materials. |
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Morten M. SmedskjaerAalborg University, Denmark Morten M. Smedskjaer is the Head of the Section of Disordered Materials and Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Chemistry from the same university in 2011 and worked as a research scientist at Corning Incorporated from 2011 to 2012. He received a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant in 2022 and is a fellow of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences and Danish Academy of Natural Sciences. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Vittorio Gottardi Prize, Sir Alastair Pilkington Award, W.H. Zachariasen Award, and Grundfos Prize. His research focuses on the structure, dynamics, and mechanical properties of disordered materials, including oxide and metal-organic framework glasses. |
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Manling SuiBeijing University of Technology, China Manling Sui is a Chair Professor and the Director of Academic Committee of Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing at Beijing University of Technology (BJUT). She received her Ph.D. in 1991 at Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and successively worked at Northeastern University in China, University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, and Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Then she joined BJUT as Chair Professor of Cheung Kong Scholars Programme in 2009. Her research is focused on the structure and property relationships of advanced materials at atomic scale, especially using in situ transmission electron microscopy with external stimuli such as thermal, electrical, mechanical, optical, and liquid/gas environments. She received the Distinguished Young Scholar Fund from the NSF of China, the Hundred Talents Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Top-ten Outstanding Women Prize of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Natural Science Prize of China, etc. |
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Carla VerdiUniversity of Queensland, Australia Carla Verdi is a Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Queensland and an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology. She received her PhD at the University of Oxford in 2017 and held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Oxford and the University of Vienna. She was awarded an ARC DECRA fellowship and moved to the University of Sydney in 2023 before joining the University of Queensland later that year. Her research focuses on computational materials physics, combining first-principles materials modeling methods and machine learning to understand and predict the properties of functional materials for next-generation devices and quantum technologies. |
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Kai WuPeking University, China Kai Wu is the MOE Changjiang Professor and Boya Distinguished Professor at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University. He received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Zhejiang University in 1987 and a Ph.D. degree from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. He was then an Assistant/Associate researcher at the State Key Laboratory for Catalysis in the same institute until 1995. Prior to his joining Peking University in 2000, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Germany and PNNL, USA. He has been working in surface physics and chemistry, aiming at quantitative understanding of various surface and interface processes with developed high-resolution visualization techniques at the atomic and molecular levels. His current interests mainly lie in surface molecular assembly, surface model catalysis, ion chemistry, and interfacial devices. |
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Gang ZhangBeijing Institute of Technology, China Gang Zhang obtained B.Sci. and Ph.D. in physics at Tsinghua University in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Prior to current position, he was a senior principal scientist in the Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore (2013-2024), and a professor at Peking University (2010-2013). His research focuses on nanoscale thermal conduction and thermal management materials. He is a Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), for seminal contribution in understanding the phononic physics in low-dimensional quantum materials. |
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Shuyun ZhouTsinghua University, China Shuyun Zhou is a professor of Physics at Tsinghua University. Her research focuses on the electronic structure and ultrafast dynamics of two-dimensional materials and heterostructures. She received her Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley in 2007. She worked as a postdoc and a project scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before joining Tsinghua University in 2012. She received recognitions such as L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science, China, Sir Martin Wood Prize for Low Temperature Physics, and Huang Kun Physics Prize. She served as Member of Commission on Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). |
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Igor ZozoulenkoLinköping University, Sweden Igor Zozoulenko is a Professor in the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the National Academy Sciences of Ukraine and the National University of Kyiv in 1988. Before joining Linköping University in 1995 he was a research scientist at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and a postdoc at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. His current research includes simulation and modeling of electronic, optical, structural, and transport properties of organic conducting polymers and biopolymers, as well as organic and electrochemical device modeling. |
