Zhigang Gu is a professor and PhD supervisor at the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He obtained his PhD from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2014 under the supervision of Professor Christof Wöll, then worked as a postdoctoral fellow there, collaborating with Professor Christof Wöll and Professor Andrea Iris Schaefer. In 2015 he became an associate professor at the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, and in 2018 he became a full professor. His recent research focuses on developing crystalline thin films for chiral and nonlinear optics. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed research papers.