Prof. Hong Ding obtained his BS degree in physics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1990 and the PhD degree in physics from University of Illinois at Chicago in 1995. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Argonne National Laboratory from 1996 to 1998. He joined the Department of Physics at Boston College as an assistant professor in 1998, and became an associate professor in 2003 and a full professor in 2007. He joined IOP full time in 2008. His main research area is to study electronic structure using angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. He has published more than 130 papers with a total citation number over 6000 and the H-index of 40. He has received Sloan Research Fellowship Award in 1999, became APS Fellow in 2011.