Prof. Feng Ding obtained his Bs, Ms and PhD degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Fudan University and Nanjing University in 1993, 1996 and 2002, respectively. Then he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Gothenburg University in Sweden from 2003 to 2005. From 2005, he joined Rice University as a Research Scientist until the end of 2008. From 2009 to 2016, he joined the Institute of Textile and Clothing of Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor (from 2013). From 2017, he joined UNIST as a Distinguished Professor and the IBS-CMCM as a group leader. Prof. Ding’s research group’s research interests mainly focus on the computational method development, theoretical exploration of various carbon materials and 2D materials, especially on their formation mechanism, the kinetics of their nucleation, growth and etching. Prof. Ding has co-authored more than190 SCI papers in Science, Science Advances, Nature serial journals, PNAS, Phys. Rev. Lett., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mat., etc.