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Dr. Liang-Yin CHU was promoted to a full professor of Chemical Engineering at Sichuan University in 1997 and became Director of the Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory for Filtration and Separation in 2001. He was a research fellow at the University of Tokyo from October 1999 to September 2001, a visiting scholar at Harvard University from August 2006 to February 2007, a visiting professor at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI) of Paris from December 2007 to February 2008, and a visiting professor at the University of Birmingham from November to December 2011. Professor Chu has received many honors and awards including the National Natural Science Award nominated by the Ministry of Education of China (2003), Researcher of the Year 2006 in China issued by Scientific Chinese (2007), Distinguished Young Scholar issued by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2008), and Distinguished Professor of the "Chang Jiang Scholars Program" issued by the Ministry of Education (2009), and Honorary Professor of the University of Birmingham (2012). He has authored/coauthored more than 300 papers, 21 patents, 12 book chapters and three books. He has been devoted to the investigation and development of smart hydrogel functional materials and systems since the end of the last century. Currently, Professor Chu directs a talented research group with a diverse and interdisciplinary focus on the development of new hydrogel functional materials for controlled release and separation, especially environmental stimuli-responsive smart hydrogel functional materials and systems.

Dr. Rui XIE received her PhD from Sichuan University.  Where she became an associate professor at Sichuan University in 2009.  She is a visiting scholar at Harvard University in 2013. Her main research fields are smart hydrogel membranes and microcapsules for separation and controlled release.  She has authored and coauthored 88 peer-reviewed papers and 107 scientific