Yanqing Tian, professor of materials science and engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology. He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Organic Chemistry & Polymer Chemistry and Physics, Jilin University (China) in 1989, 1992, and 1995, respectively. He worked at Jilin University as an associate professor, Sagami Chemical Research Center (Japan) as a STA Fellow, Tokyo Metropolitan University as a JSPS Postdoc Fellow, the University of Washington as a postdoc, and the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University as an assistant and then an associate research professor. He joined SUSTech at 2014.