Jianxin Zou, born in 1978, is currently a tenured professor in Materials Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the International Association of Advanced Materials. He obtained his PhD degrees from the University of Lorraine in France and Dalian University of Technology in 2007. He then served as a postdoctor at the University of British Columbia. He has published over 170 academic papers in journals such as Science, Adv Mater., Adv Energy Mater., etc. He is now mainly engaged in the design, preparation, characterization and application of advanced magnesium-based energy materials. He holds 26 national and international patents and research funds from Shanghai Municipal Government, the Ministry of Education, National Science and Technology committee and NSFC.

In recent years, he has carried out in-depth research on magnesium-based energy and structural materials, presided over and completed 2 projects of Shanghai Pujiang Talent Plan, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission Innovation Key Project, General Assembly Department National Defense Major Special Project, etc. Participated in and completed the National Science and Technology Support Plan, major projects of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the National Natural Science Foundation, and key basic research projects of Shanghai. Currently, he serves as the chief scientist of the National Key R&D Program. He was selected as the Young Yangtze Scholar of the Ministry of Education and is responsible for the National Natural Science Foundation