Qi Zhu received his Ph.D. of engineering in materials science from Northeastern University, China, in 2012. He is now a full professor of materials science and engineering at Northeastern University, China. He was a guest researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS, Japan) from 2009 to 2011 and a visiting researcher at NIMS from 2018 to 2019. His research interests include the design, syntheses, and application of optically functional inorganic materials. To date, he has published over 100 scientific papers on optically functional inorganic materials.