Biography: Guosheng Shao is the Director of the State Center for International Cooperation on Designer Low-carbon and Environmental Nanomaterials, at the Zhengzhou University, China. He is also the Funding Director of the ZhengZhou Materials Genome Institute (ZMGI, 2016). He earned his PhD in Materials Science at the University of Surrey in 1995 and thereupon worked as a research fellow and senior research fellow, until transferring to Brunel University as Reader in Materials in 2005. He joined the University of Bolton as a professor of Material Modelling and Simulation in 2007, and then established the Institute for Renewable Energy and Environmental Technologies (IREET) as its funding Director, together with the responsibility as Head of Engineering. He was then appointed to be the Head for Engineering, Sports and Science. His academic interest is “designer” materials and application devices, with current focus on sustainable (renewable) energy systems and environmental technologies.