Shichun Mu is Chair Professor at Wuhan University of Technology, the member of EU Academy of Sciences (2025), the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2022), the director of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Sciences (2014), the standing director of the Energy Storage Materials and Devices Technology Subcommittee of Energy Storage Technology Committee of IEEE PES China (2020). He received his Ph.D. degree from Chinese Academy of Sciences, China in 2001, and joined the Wuhan University of Technology as a postdoc till 2003. Since then, he has stayed at Wuhan University of Technology and been a full professor since 2006. He was an academic visitor at Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford in 2007–2008. His research interests focus on carbon materials, water splitting/PEM fuel cell catalysts, and lithium-ion batteries. He has published more than 460 peer reviewed papers.