4 July 2025
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Board Members of Surfaces


Surfaces (ISSN: 2571-9637) is pleased to add the following researchers to the 2025 Early Career Editorial Board and congratulates them on becoming part of the journal’s community.

Name: Dr. Changjin Wu
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Homepage: https://www.mech.hku.hk/academic-staff/Wu-Changjin
Research interests: soft active matters; development of micro/nanorobotics with active colloids; precision biomedicine by programmable micro/nanorobots; self-assembly and collective intelligence of swarming nanorobots; wearable bioelectronic devices; microfluidics and noninvasive diagnosis and therapy

Name: Dr. Longcheng Zhang
Affiliation: 1. School of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Homepage:  https://longchengzhang.mystrikingly.com/
Research interests: sustainable chemical production via electrochemical approaches (hydrogen evolution reaction, oxygen evolution reaction, seawater electrolysis, H2O2 synthesis, ammonia synthesis (NOx–/NORR)); rational synthesis of self-supporting nanostructured materials for energy conversion; in situ and operando structural characterizations (electrochemical in situ Raman, in situ electron paramagnetic resonance)

Name: Dr. Siwen Zhang
Affiliation: Institute of Clean Energy Chemistry, Key Laboratory for Green Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry of Advanced Materials of Liaoning Province, College of Chemistry, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, China
Homepage:  https://chem.lnu.edu.cn/info/11942/65678.htm
Research interests: controllable synthesis of transition metal oxides; ingenious design of flexible devices; preparation of self-supporting membrane electrodes; preparation of all-solid-state batteries/supercapacitors/aqueous batteries

Name: Dr. Xiaolei Liu
Affiliation: Institute of Nanophotonics, College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
Homepage: https://photon.jnu.edu.cn/2023/0829/c10341a761667/page.htm
Research interests: photocatalysis; photoelectrocatalysis; H2 generation; CO2 reduction

Name: Dr. Bo Zhang
Affiliation: School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Homepage: https://xuteli.bit.edu.cn/szdw/xsds/xjjgjsyjy/2b38d15ef6a94259891dbb2d6418bcf9.htm
Research interests: design; preparation and application of biomimetic superwettability surfaces

Name: Dr. Zongfang Wu
Affiliation: Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China
Homepage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BU3AjuMAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN
Research interests: surface science; heterogeneous catalysis; spectroscopic characterization; computational chemistry

Name: Prof. Dr. Cheng Hu
Affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, China
Homepage:  https://faculty.sdu.edu.cn/ChengHU/zh_CN/index.htm
Research interest: energy storage materials; Li-S batteries; Li-metal anodes; nanoporous carbons; surface and interface science; metallic material engineering

Name: Dr. Jiaolong Liu
Affiliation: School of Physics, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
Homepage: https://faculty.xidian.edu.cn/LJL0203/zh_CN/index.htm
Research interests: electromagnetic functional nanocomposites and their stealth applications

Name: Dr. Xinghua Wu
Affiliation: School of Materials and Energy, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
Homepage:   https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Lj6_Q3oAAAAJ&hl=en
Research interests: functional coatings/superhydrophobic; anti-condensation; anti-icing, anti-drag; anti-biofouling; coatings for stent

Name: Dr. Cong Wang
Affiliation: College of Mathematics and Physics, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Homepage: https://faculty.buct.edu.cn/cmp/wc1/main.htm
Research interests:  new micro-nano processing method based on laser direct writing and construction of information functional devices

Name: Dr. Gianluca D’Olimpio
Affiliation: Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Via Vetoio, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6367-3945
Research interests: surface science; catalysis; 2D materials; operando XPS; ambient pressure XPS

Name: Dr. Zili Ma
Affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
Homepage: https://mse.hfut.edu.cn/info/1017/5740.htm
Research interests: inorganic chemistry; catalysis; energetic material

Name: Dr. Hongling Zhou
Affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7346-9764
Research interests: the first-principles calculations; design and preparation of metal-based materials by field-assisted sintering; multi-dimensional and multi-scale characterization of materials

Name: Dr. Krishan Kanhaiya
Affiliation: Institute of Physics, Ruhr University Bochum, Universitätstrasse 150, Bochum, Germany
Homepage: https://tp3.physik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/staff/
Research interests: atomistic simulations; molecular dynamics; ab initio calculations; interface force field

Name: Dr. Qingguo Wang
Affiliation: College of Safety Science and Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China
Homepage: https://cces.njtech.edu.cn/info/1024/1931.htm
Research interests: surface chemistry, surfactants and their engineering applications

Name: Dr. Yueyue Dong
Affiliation: School of Materials and New Energy, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, China
Homepage: https://smane.nxu.edu.cn/info/1056/3353.htm
Research interests: plasmons; surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy; photochemistry; hydrogen energy utilization

Name: Dr. Xinfei Zhang
Affiliation: School of Ecology, Environment and Resources, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Homepage: https://seer.gdut.edu.cn/info/1031/6710.htm
Research interests: photocatalysis; environmental functional materials; advanced oxidation processes; emerging contaminants control

Name: Dr. Golrokh (Gol) Akhgar
Affiliation: Manufacturing, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Linfield, NSW 2070, Australia
Homepage: https://www.linkedin.com/in/golrokhakhgar/?originalSubdomain=au
Research interests: thin films; magnetism; topological insulators; magnetic topological insulators; quantum transport measurements; 2D materials; quantum sensors; superconductivity; surface and interface physics

Name: Dr. Min Feng
Affiliation: Hangzhou International Innovation Institute, Beihang University, Beijing, China
Homepage: https://shi.buaa.edu.cn/fengmin/zh_CN/index/215520/list/index.htm
Research interests: corrosion and protection; high temperature protective coatings; self-lubricating composite materials

Name: Dr. Adil Emin
Affiliation: School of Physics Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China
Research interests: electrochemical energy storage and new materials research

Name: Dr. Navdeep Kaur
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33174, USA
Homepage: https://dradu.eng.fiu.edu/research-group
Research interests: dye-sensitized and perovskite solar photovoltaics; metal oxide-based gas sensors

Name: Dr. Runfa Tan
Affiliation: Department of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon, Republic of Korea
Homepage: https://nanoenc.weebly.com/members.html
Research interests: design and synthesis of nanomaterial for sustainable energy and environmental application; (photo)electrochemical chemical production and waste reforming

Name: Dr. Kechuang Wan
Affiliation: College of Mechanical Engineering and Energy, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Research interests: development of high-performance catalysts and the exploration of interfacial catalytic mechanisms for fuel cells

Name: Dr. Rafał Lewandków
Affiliation: Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Wrocław, pl. Maxa Borna 9, 50-137 Wrocław, Poland
Homepage: https://netcat.uwr.edu.pl/people/
Research interests: surface; thin films; thin film deposition; semiconductor materials; thin film technology; photoelectron spectroscopy

Name: Dr. Yupeng Cao
Affiliation: College of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China
Homepage: https://hkht.tyut.edu.cn/info/1021/1162.htm
Research interests: High-performance ceramic coating

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