Biography: Professor Guosheng Shao is the Director of the State Centre for International Cooperation on Designer Low-carbon & Environmental Materials (CDLCEM) at the Zhengzhou University, China. He is also the Founding Director of the Zhengzhou Materials Genome Institute (ZMGI, 2016), Editor-in-Chief for Energy & Environmental Materials (Wiley), and Visiting Professor to the University of Surrey, UK (2018-). He earned his PhD in materials science at the University of Surrey in 1995 and thereupon worked as a research fellow and senior research fellow, until transferring to Brunel University as Reader in Materials in 2005. He joined the University of Bolton as Professor of Materials Modelling & Simulation in 2007, and then established the Institute for Renewable Energy and Environmental Technologies (IREET, 2011) as its founding director, together with the responsibility as Head of Engineering etc.

His academic interest is “designer” materials and application devices, which is characterized by multi-scale modelling, advanced characterization techniques esp. TEM, EELS and XPS, and advanced thin film coating technologies. His current focus is mainly on sustainable (renewable) energy systems and environmental technologies. He is also proactive in bridging academic knowledge with manufacturing, resulting in commercialization of inventions covering mass production of almost defect-free graphene powders/thin films, their applications and processing facilities.