Prof. Jiusheng Li graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2002 with a Ph.D. in Materials Science. He worked at the Lanzhou Lubricant R&D Center of PetroChina for 10 years. In June 2012, he joined the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and presided over the construction of the “Laboratory for Advanced Lubricating Materials”. His research interests include the design, synthesis, and product development of synthetic base oils, high-performance additives, and lubricating greases; the preparation and characterization of functional lubricating materials and the study of their action mechanisms at friction interfaces; and research on green chemical synthesis processes in response to the needs of the domestic coal chemical and fine chemical industries. He is currently a member of the Party Committee/Academic Affairs Committee, a member of the Academic Committee, and the Director of the Green Chemical Engineering Technology Center. He has undertaken and completed more than 30 projects of various types, published more than 80 SCI papers, applied for more than 50 patents, and authorized 28 patents.