Bio: Shuji Ye, Ph.D., is a Chair Professor, doctoral and master’s supervisor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and a Research Fellow at the Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale. He currently holds the posts of Party Secretary and Deputy Director of the Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale.

He earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1997, a Master’s degree from the Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000, and his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the University of Tokyo in 2004. From 2004 to 2009, he completed successive postdoctoral fellowships at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York and the University of Michigan.

From October 2009 to June 2016, he worked as an Associate Professor at the Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, USTC. Starting in June 2016, he has served concurrently as Research Fellow of the above center and Professor in the Department of Chemical Physics, USTC. He was selected as Chair Professor of the University of Science and Technology of China in September 2022.

Bio: Wenkai Zhang, Professor and doctoral supervisor at the Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, serves as Director of the Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Optics and Vice Dean of the School of Physics and Astronomy, Beijing Normal University. He is a recipient of the National Young Talents Program. His research mainly focuses on ultrafast laser technology and its applications, ultrafast spectroscopy, and applications of X-ray free-electron lasers.

Professor Zhang pursued his Bachelor’s degree at the University of Science and Technology of China from 1996 to 2001. From 2001 to 2007, he completed his doctoral studies at the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He carried out postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley and the PULSE Institute at Stanford University starting in 2007, followed by another postdoctoral appointment at the University of Pennsylvania from 2014 to 2015. After returning to China in 2015, he joined Beijing Normal University and has successively held the positions of Research Fellow and Professor.