Professor Lijian Meng received his Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Minho, Portugal. He works in the Physics Department at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto), Portugal, as an assistant professor (1994–1998), an associate professor (1998–2010), and a qualified full professor (2010–now). His research interests are the fabrication and characterization of semiconductor thin films.