Professor Xianhui Chen is the Yan Jici distinguished professor in Physics at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph. D. degree from USTC in 1992, after which he was a Humboldt Fellow at the Karlsruhe Research Center and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics at Stuttgart in Germany. He had been a visiting professor at the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Studies (Hokuriku), Texas Superconductivity Research Center at the University of Houston and the National University of Singapore. His research is centered on the design, discovery, growth and characterization of novel quantum materials, and the emergent phenomena therein. He has made key contributions to the fields of superconductivity and two-dimensional (2D) materials, especially for iron-based superconductor and 2D black phosphorus materials. He was awarded the Bernd T. Matthias Prize in the field of Superconducting Materials in 2015, and the Future Science Prize--Physical Science Prize in 2023.

Xi Dai is a Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He was admitted to Zhejiang University in 1989 and obtained Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Science degrees. He received his PhD from the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999, and then went to Hong Kong, United States for postdoctoral research. In 2006, he returned to the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a researcher and doctoral supervisor. In 2011, he was supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. In 2017, he joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as a professor.

Xi Dai has been engaged in research on strongly correlated electronic materials, computational materials science, quantum magnetism, superconductors, and unconventional superconductors.

Kun Jiang is an associate professor of Institute of physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Kun Jiang received his Ph.D. degree from Boston College (2018), was a postdoctoral fellow at Boston College (2018-2020) and joined the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOP, CAS) in 2020. His current research focuses on the theory of high-temperature superconductivity, topological superconductivity and other correlated materials.

Prof. Kui Jin is the director of the National Lab for Superconductivity (NLSC) at Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOPCAS). He received his Ph.D. from IOPCAS in 2008 and worked as a Research Associate at University of Maryland, College Park until 2012. He then joined IOPCAS and set up his research team in NLSC. He is interested in the mechanism and applications of high-temperature superconductors. His research group is devoted to synthesizing high-quality superconducting films and solving relevant key scientific issues in both physics and applications. They are establishing a unique high-throughput superconductivity research paradigm, which speeds up the discovery of scaling laws in unconventional superconductors (see Nature 602,431). Now he serves as associate editor or editorial board member of Science Bulletin, Physical Review Materials, Quantum Frontiers, Materials Futures.

Dr. Li Lu is a low-temperature physics experimentalist in the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOP, CAS). His current research is focused on topological quantum states and devices at ultralow temperatures. He obtained a B.S. degree from Nanjing University in 1982 and a Ph.D. from IOP in 1992. He was a visiting scientist at UC Berkeley during 1992-1995, and became a full professor of IOP in 1996. He has served as the executive council member of the Chinese Physical Society (CPS) since 2007, and the liaison of CPS with International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) since 2011. He ever served as the deputy chair and then the chair of the Commission of Low Temperature Physics, CPS during 2001-2018, and the chair of the Commission of Publications, CPS during 2007-2023. He served as the founding director of the Laboratory of Physics under Extreme Conditions, IOP during 2002-2004, the deputy director general of IOP during 2006-2012, the director of the Laboratory of Solid-State Quantum Information and Computation in IOP during 2009-2017, and now the founding director of Huairou Division, IOP since 2020. He became a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012.

Ziqiang Wang graduated from Tsinghua University in 1984 and received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Columbia University in 1989. He was a postdoc fellow at Rutgers University and Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is currently a professor in the Physics Department at Boston College. He received a Cottrell Scholar Award in 1996 and a SEED Award in 2021 from Research Corporation for Science Advancement. His current research focuses on the basic physics of correlated and topological electronic states in advanced quantum materials, including unconventional superconductors, quantum magnetism, quantum Hall systems, topological superconductors and other extraordinary forms of superconducting matter. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.

C N Yang Professor of Physics at Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University. Received PhD in 1987, Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China. Current research interest: Strongly correlated electron systems; High-temperature superconductivity.

Hong Yao is currently Professor of Physics in the Institute for Advanced Study at Tsinghua University. He received his B.S. from Nanjing University in 2001, M.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 2004, and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2009 under Prof. Steven Kivelson. After doing postdoctoral research first at Berkeley with Prof. Dung-Hai Lee and then at Stanford with Prof. Shou-Cheng Zhang in 2009-2012, he moved to Tsinghua University as a faculty in 2012. Hong Yao has made fundamental contributions to the theory of correlated quantum phases of matter and novel quantum critical phenomena, including proposing the Yao-Kivelson model and the Yao-Lee model. He was awarded the Daniel Tsui Fellowship by the University of Hong Kong (2021), the Ye Qisun Prize by Chinese Physical Society (2022), and the Xplorer Prize by the New Cornerstone Science Foundation (2023). He was elected to APS Fellow in 2021.

Zhang Guang-Ming is a "Jiukun" Chair Professor in the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University. He obtained his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1991. Since 2004, he has been a professor in the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University. He has served as the director of Institute of Condensed Matter Physics and as the deputy director of the National Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics.

His long-term research focuses on quantum many-body problems in condensed matter physics. He has proposed a new method for the exact solution of the two-dimensional Kitaev quantum spin model, established a unified theory for two-dimensional quantum fractional excitations, and constructed a universal class of topological states in one-dimensional quantum integer spin chains. He has also developed quantum many-body theories for Kondo resonance and magnetic correlations in correlated electron systems. In collaboration with experimental teams, he was the first to discover unconventional superconductivity under pressure in La3Ni2O7 at liquid nitrogen temperatures.

In recognition of his contributions, he received the "Outstanding Young Scholar" award from the Hong Kong Qiu Si Science Foundation in 1999, was funded by the "National Outstanding Youth Fund" in 2001, was appointed as a "Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor" by the Ministry of Education in 2006, and won the "Ye Qisun Physics Prize" from the Chinese Physical Society in 2011.

Yi Zhou, a professor in Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (http://www.iop.cas.cn/rcjy/zgjgwry/?id=3423). He completed his undergraduate physics degree at Tsinghua University in 1998 and earned his Ph.D. from the Institute for Advanced Study there in January 2004. From 2004 to 2009, he conducted postdoctoral research in Dresden and Hong Kong. He was a Research Fellow and Professor at Zhejiang University from July 2009 to February 2019. Since March 2019, he has been a Research Fellow at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His work in theoretical condensed matter physics and quantum many-body theory has greatly advanced the understanding of quantum spin liquids, topological states, and unconventional superconductivity. He has contributed to prestigious journals such as Reviews of Modern Physics, Nature Physics, and National Science Review.