Ruqiang Zou is a Professor at Peking University. He obtained his M.S. in Chemistry at Nankai University, Tianjin, China. He received a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Kobe University & National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. He finished his Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was a JSPS Fellow at Kobe University from 2006 to 2008. He was an Associate Professor at the Singapore Peking University Research Centre for a Sustainable Low-Carbon Future, Peking University, from 2012 to 2016. He is an Associate Director at the Beijing Key Lab of Advanced Battery Materials. He was elected National Outstanding Young Scientist of NSFC in 2018 and was among the Top-notch Young Professionals of China in 2015.