Dr. Jun-Ying Chen graduated from the Dalian University of Technology with a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering and Technology in 2007. In 2014, she received her Ph.D. from the Department of Chemical Nanoscience of Ewha Womans University in the Republic of Korea. From September 2015 to April 2018, she worked as a Category I postdoctoral fellow and assistant researcher at the South China University of Technology. Since April 2018, she has been an associate researcher. Her research interests include the preparation of efficient photocatalytic water splitting and biomass reforming catalysts and their performance using metal–organic framework materials and their derivatives; and the chemical simulation of the structure and function of the active center of metalloenzymes based on the study of bioinorganic and coordination chemistry, such as the chemical simulation of the structure and function of the oxygen-evolving complex in photosystem II.
Dr. Li-Ping Si currently works at the School of Materials Science and Energy, Foshan University. He obtained a Master's degree in Applied Chemistry at the South China University of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering at South Dakota State University. From 2013 to 2015, he worked as a research assistant at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, then he continued his postdoctoral research at South China Normal University. His research interests are 1. synthesis of porphyrin macrocyclic compounds and porous framework materials and their applications in lithium–sulfur batteries, supercapacitors, photocatalysis, photodynamic therapy, and solar cell devices. 2. Electrochromic research of phthalocyanine compounds.
Prof. Dr. Hai-Yang Liu currently works as a Professor at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology. He obtained a B.Sc. at Jiangxi University, and an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. at Zhongshan University. His research areas are the synthesis of functional macrocyclic porphyrin and corrole complexes, catalytic oxidation of organic substrates by metal corrolate and porphyrin, bioinorganic chemistry of porphyrin and corrole, self-assembled supramolecular porphyrin and corrole array with useful properties, and photo-physical property and electronic structure of metalloporphyrin and metal correlates. His current research projects are 1. photodynamic antitumor activity of corrole complexes. 2. Metal corrole-catalyzed organic reactions. 3. Metal corrole-based electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction and oxygen reduction reaction.
