Jinwei Gao is currently Professor of South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics at South China Normal University. He received his Ph.D degree from South China University of Technology. Meanwhile, he has been a visiting Ph.D student in Department of Mechanical Engineering of MIT, supervised by Professor Gang Chen from September 2007 to April 2010, supported by China Scholarship Council (CSC). He was an associate professor at South China Normal University from 2010, and was promoted to a full professor in 2015. 

Professor Gao’s research interests center on thin film flexible energy conversion materials and devices and corresponding surface and interface characterization and mechanism, especially in flexible fractal electrodes, interfacial materials and the applications in solar cells, supercapacitors and water splitting. He has made important contributions to the understanding the nano fractal networks in electron and photon transportation in thin film energy conversion and storage devices via modeling and experimental studies. He and his collaborators exploited the unique fractal structure and the transport physics to advance the field of transparent conductors and their applications in solar cells and energy storage devices. His group also developed strategies to engineer nanostructures to achieve high efficiency perovskite solar cells, 3D fractal and hierarchical structures in water splitting and special concept for solar-drived steam generation. In addition to the fundamental researches, his group also advanced the low-cost, environmental-friendly technique for producing R2R metallic networks transparent conductors and its commercialization. By exploring those micro/nanoscale transport phenomena, Professor Gao’s group is advancing a wide range of technologies such as cracking metallic transparent conductor, fractal and stretchable transparent conductor, high effective perovskite solar cells and thin film supercapacitors. One of the Professor Gao’s invention was selected by Ministry of Science and Technology as one of the annual top ten innovations in China: fractal networks electrodes enabling the energy generation and conversions (2016). Professor Gao has published more than 80 archival articles (with google scholar citation ~5000), 3 book chapters, and given over 60 invited talks. Professor Gao has supervised over 40 M.S. and Ph.D thesis and 2 post-docs and visiting scholars. He has over 37 granted and pending patents, and cofounded 1 company. He has been also the editor of Surfaces and Interfaces, and peer reviewer for over 50 journals, including Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, etc.