Jinwei Gao is currently Professor of South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics at South China Normal University. He received his master degrees from Chemistry Department, Xiangtan University, China, in 2006. After that, he moved to South China University of Technology as a Ph.D. candidate. In spring of 2007, he was interviewed by Professor Gang Chen as a Joint Ph.D. candidate to receive a scholarship from China Scholarship Council (CSC). He joined Professor Chen’s group in September 2007, until the end of 2009, he returned to China and obtained his PhD degree. He was an associate professor at South China Normal University from 2010, and was promoted to full professor in 2015.

Prof. Gao’s research interests center on optoelectronic materials and devices, especially in flexible transparent conductors and the applications in modern electronics, such as, solar cells, display and sensor. He has made important contributions to the emerging nanomaterial in ITO replacement, such as cracking metallic networks, fractal metallic networks, and nature inspired electronics. 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 displays. 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 steam generation. By exploring those micro/nanoscale transport phenomena, Prof. Gao’s group is advancing a wide range of technologies such as cracking metallic transparent conductor, fractal and stretchable transparent conductor, and high effective perovskite solar cells. Prof. Gao published more than 70 technical articles, including Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advances in Physics etc. He has over 25 granted and pending patents. Research Interests:

1.Emerging nano-materials transparent conductive electrodes and the applications in flexible electronics;

2.Water splitting (bio-inspired structure);

3.Flexible solar cells (Perovskite solar cells, small molecule organic solar cells)

4.Solar-powered seawater desalination

5.Fundamental researches in solar, thermal, and electric energy conversion and transport mechanism.