Jie Shen is a Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), Wuhan, China. He received his B.Sc. in Materials Science and Ph.D. in Materials Physics and Chemistry from WUT, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He was a visiting Scholar of Manufacturing at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in 2015–2016. He has been engaged in the research of piezoelectric, dielectric and ferroelectric ceramics and their composites for a long time. He has carried out a series of works mainly focusing on multi-scale design, electrical/thermal/optical property regulation, multifunctionalization and application of functional composites.