Professor Jicheng Zhou received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Central South University in 1999. In 2005, he served as a visiting professor at the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge in the UK. He is mainly engaged in research work on micro-fabrication technology, optoelectronic materials and devices, as well as new materials and process technologies for solar photovoltaics. He has been granted 7 national invention patents and published more than 140 academic papers, among which over 100 have been indexed by SCI and EI. He has won the third prize of provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological achievements and the second prize of the Outstanding Postdoctoral Thesis in China. He has been an expert of the National Science and Technology Award Evaluation Committee, an evaluation expert for the National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations, a member of the Reliability Branch of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, a director of the Hunan Productivity Society, and a member of the International Union of Materials, among others.