Professor Hui-Ming Cheng

• International Scientific Advisory Committee member
• Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professor Hui-Ming Cheng graduated from Hunan University, China in 1984 and received his PhD in 1992 from Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMR CAS). He is the founding director of the Institute of Technology for Carbon Neutrality, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS, since 2021, and concurrently the director of the Advanced Carbon Research Division of Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, CAS, since 2001. He is a member of CAS and a fellow of TWAS. He used to work at Kyushu Research Center of AIST and Nagasaki University, Japan from 1990 to 1993, and MIT, USA from 1997 to 1998. He was an honorary professor at the University of Queensland and a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Surrey.

His research activities mainly focus on energy materials and devices, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and other 2D materials. He has published over 1000 papers with an h-index of 178, and is a Highly Cited Researcher in two fields of materials science, and chemistry. He has given over 240 plenary/keynote/invited lectures at various conferences, and won 4 State Natural Science Award of China (2^nd class in 2006, 2017, 2020 and 2024), Charles E. Pettinos Award from American Carbon Society, Felcht Award from SGL, Germany, and ACS Nano Lecture Award, etc. He has also spun off several high-tech companies. He used to be an Editor of Carbon from 2000 to 2015, Editor-in-Chief of New Carbon Materials from 1998 to 2015, Associate Editor of Science China Materials from 2014 to 2022, and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Energy Storage Materials since 2014.

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