Liqiang Mai, PhD, Chair Professor, Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Science Fund of China, Executive Dean of International School of Materials Science and Engineering in Wuhan University of Technology.He received PHD degree in Wuhan University of Technology in 2004 and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Georgia Institute of Technology in the group of Prof. ZL Wang from 2006 to 2007. He conducted nanowire based nanodevices and battery research as advanced research scholar in the group of Prof. CM Lieber in Harvard University from 2008 to 2011.
Prof. Liqiang Mai is mainly engaged in research field of nano energy materials and micro/nano devices. He has published over 160 papers tagged by SCI in leading journals such as Nat. Nanotechnol., Nat. Commun., Chem. Rev., PNAS,Nano Lett., Adv Mater., J. Am. Chem. Soc.,Energy Environ. Sci.,etc, His papers have been cited by the world leading scientists such as MS Whittingham, GD Stucky, R Tenne, CNR Rao, etc in Science, Nat. Nanotechnol., Prog. Mater. Sci., Nano Lett., Adv.Mater.,etc. He has conducted more than 30 research projects as project principal such as National Basic Research Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc. He is the winner of the National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, China Youth Science and Technology Award, and Guanghua Engineering Award. He also winned Hundred, Thousand, and Ten-Thousand Talents Project,Ten-Thousand Talents Program, Nanoscience Research Leader award,Person of the Year(2014) ofScientificChinese, the First Prize for Hubei Natural Science Award, Hubei Youth Five Four Medal, etc. He is the senior editor of Science Letters, editorial board member of Adv. Electronic Mater., Nano Research and Science China Materials.