Tianyi Ma is a Distinguished Professor at RMIT University, an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a Clarivate Global Highly Cited Researcher. He serves as the Director of ARC Industrial Transformation Hub for Intelligent Energy Efficiency in Future Protected Cropping (E2Crop), and the Research Director of Centre for Atomaterials and Nanomanufacturing (CAN). His research has been acknowledged by internationally renowned experts and authorities via 2024 Prime Minister's Prize for Science - the Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year, the AAS Le Févre Medal, the Young Tall Poppy Science Award, the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, and the Horizon Prize of Royal Society of Chemistry. 

Prof. Zhong-Yong Yuan is the Director of the Institute of New Catalytic Materials Science, Nankai University. He received his PhD degree in Physical Chemistry from Nankai University in 1999. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1999 to 2001. He then moved to Belgium, working as a research fellow at the University of Namur from 2001 to 2005, prior to joining Nankai University as a full professor. In 2006, he was awarded the "Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University" by the Ministry of Education. In 2016 he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He has been listed in the "Highly Cited Chinese Researchers" (Elsevier) since 2021. Currently he also serves as an Associate Editor of RSC Advances, Editor-in-Chief of Smart Materials and Devices, Academic Editor of the Journal of Engineering, and as Editorial Board member and Guest Editor of several academic journals. His research interests are mainly on the self-assembly of hierarchically nanoporous and nanostructured materials for energy and environmental applications. He is co-author of 460 SCI papers with H-index 82, 1 book, and 6 book chapters.