Wei Li is a Professor of School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nankai University. His research interests include the synthesis and physical properties of hybrid crystals (especially hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites and metal-organic frameworks), and their potential applications in energy and optoelectronics.

Alessandro Stroppa is a senior researcher of the National Research Council (CNR), SPIN Institute in Italy. Since 2019, he is deputy director of the CNR-SPIN unit in L'Aquila. His current research focuses on the solid-state physics and material science. He has published more than 110 peer-viewed papers (h-index 33) and received several honors including selection of one of his articles for the 'Best 2008 New Journal of Physics Collection', Research Highlight talk at EUROMAT 2013, and Certificate of Appreciation for his theoretical studies on multiferroic metal-organic frameworks at Nature Conference (Tianjin, 2019).

Zhe-Ming Wang is a professor of College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at Peking University. His current research interest covers functional coordination compounds, crystal engineering, molecule-based magnetic and dielectric materials, especially, the functional materials of metal formates. He has published more than 100 papers with other authors.

Song Gao is a Professor of South China University of Technology and Peking University. He was elected to CAS in 2007, and TWAS in 2013. He is the editor-in-chief of Inorg. Chem. Front. and an associate editor of Nat. Sci. Rev. He was the vice president and provost of Peking University from 2013 to 2018, and currently the president of South China University of Technology. His research focuses on coordination chemistry and molecule-based magnets.