Zhi-Gang Gu obtained his PhD degree from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2014; he then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at KIT. In 2015, he was an associate professor at the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). In 2018, he was promoted to a full professor and Ph.D supervisor as well as ‘Hundred-Talent’ in FJIRSM, CAS. Moreover, he has been a member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS and the high-level talent of Fujian province. His recent research focuses on developing porous thin films (e.g., SURMOFs) for guest molecule loading, chiral separation, and optical applications.