Jianmin Ma, associate professor of School of Physics & Electronics in Hunan University, China, is the winner of Hunan Provincial Outstanding Youth Fund. He has worked at University of Texas at Austin and Nanyang Technological University as postdoc and as visiting professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and University of Wollongong. His research focuses on nanotechnology such as lithium/sodium ion batteries, capacitors, electrocatalysis, the application of first-principles of density functional theory (DFT) in batteries and electrocatalytic systems, smart power stations and microbial organic anhydrous treatment engineering. He has published more than 160 SCI articles in international journals with H-index 50. He is also granted 15 patents.