Liangjie Fu, was born in Shaoxing, China, in 1982. He received his Ph.D. degree in Materials from Central South University in 2014. After postdoctoral work at Central South University and University of California, Davis (co-supervisor Prof. Alexandra Navrotsky), he joined the faculty in the Inorganic Materials Department at Central South University and moved to China University of Geosciences in 2022. His research interests focus on functional design of mineral materials and their applications in the fields of minerals, environment, catalysis, composite materials, and so on. He has published more than 60 papers with citations more than 2700. He received a number of national and provincial level projects (including 2 national key R&D plan projects), and was awarded the first prize (ranked the third) from The Building Materials Federation/The Chinese Ceramic Society.