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Plenary & Keynote Speakers

Distinguished experts shaping the future of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Jun Chen

Plenary

University of California, Los Angeles

Dr. Jun Chen is an associate professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) , where he leads pioneering research in soft matter innovation for healthcare and energy applications. Recognized by the Web of Science as one of the world’s most influential researchers in Materials Science, he holds a remarkable h-index of 143. Dr. Chen has published two books and 430 journal articles, serving as the corresponding author for 330 publications in top-tier journals, including Nature Materials , Nature Electronics , and Science Advances . A Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) , his numerous accolades include the UCLA Watanabe Excellence in Research Award, the MRS Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award, and the ONR Young Investigator Award. Additionally, he shapes his field as the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Med-X and serves on the editorial boards of over 20 prestigious scientific journals.

Discovering Magnetoelasticity in Soft Matter for Bioelectronics

Prof. Hong Liu

Plenary

Shandong University

Professor Hong Liu is currently a distinguished Professor of Materials Science in Shandong University, and University of Jinan, China He received his PhD degree from Shandong University, China, in 2001. His current research focuses on photoelectric functional materials, biosensors, tissue engineering, and stem cells, with a particular emphasis on the interaction between stem cells and nanostructured biomaterials. To date, he has been granted more than 50 patents and published over 400 papers in top-tier journals including Nature Materials , Nature Nanotechnology , and Advanced Materials , with a total citation count exceeding 50,000 and an H-index of 109. In 2009, he was awarded the Distinguished Young Scholar by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has been named among Clarivate Analytics’ Highly Cited Researchers every year from 2018 to 2024. Two scientific and technological achievements from his research group, valued at 10 million RMB, have been successfully transferred and industrialized. In 2023, he launched the new journal BMEMat (Biomedical Engineering Materials) published by Wiley, serving as its Editor-in-Chief.

Nanomaterial-Mediated Physical Signals to Regulate Stem Cell Fate for Cell Therapy of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Prof. Xiaoming Sun

Plenary

Beijing University of Chemical Technology

Prof. Xiaoming Sun is PhD Supervisor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT). He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in 2000 and PhD in Science in 2005 from the Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University. After completing postdoctoral research at Stanford University in 2008, he returned to China and joined the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering at BUCT. His research focuses on inorganic nanomaterials chemistry, particularly water electrolysis, fuel cells, and gas-superwetting electrodes and devices. He has made significant contributions to the design of functional nanomaterials and interfaces for electrochemical energy conversion. Prof. Sun has published more than 400 papers in leading international journals—including Nature, Nat. Catal., Joule, Chem., Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., and Adv. Mater.—garnering over 66,000 citations with an impressive H-index of 147. He has filed 13 international patent applications (3 granted) and obtained over 80 Chinese invention patents, with 16 patents successfully commercialized. He received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2011 and was selected as a Leading Talent of the National “Ten Thousand Talents Program” in 2019. And currently, he leads several major research projects, including a Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and projects under the National Key Research and Development Program of China.