Women Scientists Forum-Electrochemical Interfaces and Functional Materials: Energy Catalysis and Bioanalysis

Lifeng Chi, professor at the Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Material, Soochow University in P. R. China. She received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Jilin University in 1982 and 1985, respectively. She obtained her PhD in Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in 1989 and then went to University of Mainz and BASF working as a Postdoc. She became a Group leader in Physics Institute of Muenster University from 1993 and granted a Lisa Meitner stipendium in 1997. She received National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation (Type B) of China in 1999 and became a professor in physics of Muenster University in 2004. She has long been engaged in research on molecular assembly on surfaces and on-surface reactions in the field of physical chemistry, and has published nearly 500 papers in high-profile journals including Science and Nature. She proposed a molecular assembly and reaction method based on surface lattice control, achieving a new understanding of surface-induced selective molecular activation at the single-bond level, and has made systematic and innovative achievements. She has received awards including the ACS Nano Lectureship (2016) and the IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Award (2017). She serves as an Associate Editor for ACS Nano and Chemical Journal of Chinese Universities, and holds academic positions including Executive Member of the 31st Standing Council of the Chinese Chemical Society and Deputy Director of the Chemical Women's Committee. She was elected a Foreign Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2020, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021, and a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 2023.

Yang Tian, Distinguished Professor of East China Normal University, is currently the Dean of School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering of East China Normal University. She was awarded the National Outstanding Youth Fund, "The distinguished lectureship award" by the Japan Chemical Society, the First Prize of the Chinese Society for Analytical Testing (first author), the First Prize of the Chinese Chemical Society for Women Analytical Chemists, and the First Prize of the Shanghai Natural Science Award (first author). She has been invited to give 36 international and domestic congress, keynote or invited presentations in neurology and neuroscience. Currently, she is the Associate Editor of Chemical Communications and the Associate Editor of Chemical Journal of Chinese Universities and Chemical Research in Chinese Universities. Prof. Tian Yang's team has been engaged in the field of chemical expression analysis of in vivo electrical signals for a long time, and has carried out in-depth and systematic work in the development of precise analysis and measurement strategies for biochemical molecules (such as enzymes and proteins), the establishment of long time stable and high spatial resolution imaging methods, and the development of new instruments for high-speed imaging analysis. She has published 146 papers as the corresponding author, including Nat. Chem. Biol., Acc. Chem. Res., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Sci. Adv., Nat. Commun. All papers have been cited 15000 times and selected as Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholar in 2019; 8 Chinese invention patents have been granted; invited to write chapters for a series of neurochemical analysis tools in English series.

Yuqin Zou is a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at Hunan University and a recipient of the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund. She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Manchester in 2017 and joined the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Hunan University in the same year. Her research focuses on the electrocatalytic transformation of organic molecules. She has carried out systematic studies on catalyst–substrate interaction mechanisms and reaction pathway elucidation, aiming to establish structure–performance relationships and develop efficient electrocatalytic systems. Her work provides theoretical foundations and methodological support for organic electrosynthesis and green chemical transformations. She has published numerous SCI papers as first or corresponding author in leading journals, including Nature Catalysis, Nature Synthesis, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chem, Angewandte Chemie, and Advanced Materials.