Prof. Dr. Saihu Liao is a professor at the School of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, and the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University. He graduated from the Chemistry Department of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2005 and received his master's degree in 2007. He received his PhD in 2011 from the Max-Planck Institute for Coal Research/University of Cologne, Germany. From 2011 to 2013, he served as an assistant researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences; a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Germany from 2013 to 2016; and a professor at the School of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, from 2016 to 2022. He has been a professor at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Xiamen University since 2022. His research interests include organocatalytic polymerization, light-controlled polymerization, degradable polymer materials, new energy polymer materials, and sulfonyl fluoride chemistry.