Prof. Dr. Run-Wei Li is the director of Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Devices, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Institute of Physics (IOP), CAS in 2002, then worked in Osaka University, Japan as a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) research fellow, and in Kaiserslautern University, Germany as an AvH (Alexander von Humboldt) research fellow. In 2005, he joined in the International Center for Young Scientists, National Institute for Materials Sciences, Japan as a senior research fellow. He joined in NIMTE as a full professor in 2008, and was promoted to be the deputy director of NIMTE in 2013. Now his research interests focus on flexible functional materials and devices for sensors and storage. He has filed more than 70 patents and published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He serves as a referee for over 50 international journals such as: Nat. Nanotech., Nat. Rev. Mater., Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater. and so on
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