Cong Lin currently serves as an assistant professor (research) in the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He received his BE from Chongqing University in 2013, pursued joint graduate studies at Chongqing University and Peking University from 2013 to 2018, and obtained his PhD in 2018. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School from 2018 to 2021 and as a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at PolyU from 2021 to 2023. Lin’s work has focused on a comprehensive understanding of fundamental structures and their correlation with the performance of functional solids in applications across energy, catalysis, and separation through state-of-the-art techniques. He has published 60 peer-reviewed articles in journals including Science, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Chem, Matter, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, and Nano Energy, among others.