Yunqi Liu graduated from Nanjing University in 1975 and received a doctorate from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 1991. Presently, he is a professor at the Institute of Chemistry, CAS, an academician of CAS, and a member of TWAS. His current research interests include design and synthesis of molecular materials, including p-conjugated small molecules, polymers, and graphene, fabrication of related devices, including field-effect transistors and molecular electronics, and investigation of their electronic properties. He has published more than 600 papers in SCI journals (in which, over 130 of papers with IF>10), cited by other researchers for more than 25,000 times with an h-index of 80. He was recognized as “Highly Cited Researchers” by Thomson Reuters in Materials Science from 2014 to 2017. In addition, he has obtained 70 of granted patents, published three books and 18 book chapters. He received the National Natural Science Award (2nd grade) in 2007 and 2016, and Beijing Science and Technology Award in 2017 (1st grade).