Donglu Shi is a professor at the University of Cincinnati. He earned his Master of Science in Physics and his Ph.D. in Engineering, both from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Between 2013 and 2023, he served as Chair and Graduate Director of Materials Science and Engineering. He is currently Director of the Energy Materials and Nanomedicine Laboratories at the College of Engineering and Applied Science. He has been a visiting scholar at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Switzerland and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Grenoble, France. He has also been a Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, conducting research on energy materials and nanomedicine. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles.