Prof. Dr. Yan-Xin Chen is a full professor and doctoral supervisor at the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (FJIRSM, CAS). He received his master’s degree from Xiamen University in 2009 and his doctorate from the University of Trieste, Italy, in 2013. From 2013 to 2018, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Electrochemistry, the University of Ulm, Germany (2013–2016), VITO, the Flanders Institute of Technology, Belgium (2016-2017), and the Department of Chemistry, the University of Namur, Belgium (2017-2018). In early 2019, he returned to China as part of the “Hundred Talents Program of the Haixi Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences”. He joined the FJIRSM, CAS / the Xiamen Institute of Rare-earth Materials, Haixi Institutes, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published 55 peer-reviewed papers and has been cited about 1762 times. He has obtained five authorized patents in China. He serves as a young editorial board member of journals such as Chemical Synthesis and the Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry and as a guest editor of special issues of journals such as Molecules and Catalysts. His main research areas include developing new semiconductor materials and catalytic materials, developing metal oxide ordered array substrates, metal nanocatalysts, etc.