Dr. Jijian Xu is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at City University of Hong Kong. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University in 2014 and 2019, respectively. After three years as a postdoc with Prof. Chunsheng Wang, he was promoted as an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Maryland. He joined the City University of Hong Kong and set up his research group in 2023. Dr. Xu's research interests focus on developing advanced electrolytes and novel electrode materials for high-energy batteries. He has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed papers in Nature, Science, Nature Energy, Nature Synthesis, Nature Reviews Chemistry, Joule, Advanced Materials (5), etc., with a total citation of over 4900 times and an H-index of 32 (Google Scholar). Dr. Xu is a guest editor of Energy Storage Materials.