Liu Jianjun, a research fellow and doctoral supervisor,received his Ph.D. degree from Jilin University in 2002 and then did postdoctoral research at Emory University in the USA from 2003 to 2005. He worked for Southern Illinois University, the USA from 2005 to 2011 and the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. He was honored with the Outstanding Talent title by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012 and the 2020 Shanghai Academic Research Leader. He currently serves as Deputy Director of the Frontier Department, the State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, and a member of the first National Materials Genetic Engineering Committee and the Advanced Inorganic Materials Committee of the Chinese Materials Research Society. His research interests include the computational design of and experimental research on electrochemical energy storage (lithium-ion battery, electrocatalysis) materials, and the design of new battery materials and electrocatalysts through the integration of multi-scale computing, machine learning, experimental preparation and characterization and other technologies. Regarding his main academic achievements, he has: (1) established the design rules for using surface acidity as the catalyst at the electrode interface; (2) proposed an idea of using a sector structure design that uses metal coordination bonds to replace Van Der Waals Force between layers to activate the organic conjugated ring, put forward a new mechanism for electrochemical reaction induced by hydrogen transfer, and opened up a new direction for the design of non-conjugated organic battery materials; (3) proposed an activity design criterion for the 2D MoS2-based nanocatalyst with regional electronegativity. He has published more than 100 papers inNature Commun, Chem, JACS, Angew Chem, Adv Mater, Energy Environ Sci, and other journals, edited two academic books and wrote 4 chapters for books. He has been invited to deliver 18 presentations at international conferences organized by the American Ceramic Society, American Chemical Society and other organizations. The projects chaired by him include the projects sponsored by the Outstanding Talent Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Key R&D Program of China (project leader) and the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the key projects of the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology (SAST).
