Ping He obtained his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Fudan University in 2009, and later worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. He currently is a Professor of College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Nanjing University, China. His research interests focus on electrochemical functional materials and energy storage systems such as lithium-ion batteries and lithium-air batteries. He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed papers.

Haoshen Zhou obtained his bachelor’s degree in Nanjing University in 1985, and received his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1994. He is the prime senior researcher of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and the professor in Nanjing University. His research interests include the synthesis of functional materials and their applications in Li-ion batteries, Na-ion batteries, Li-redox flow batteries, metal-air batteries, and new types of batteries/cells.

Sixie Yang received his bachelor's degree in 2013 and recently received his PhD degree in materials science and engineering at Nanjing University. During his PhD program, he worked in Prof. Ping He and Prof. Haoshen Zhou's research group studying the reaction mechanisms and electrochemistry in Li-air and Li-CO₂ batteries.