Prof. Qing-Hua Xu received his BS from Zhejiang University in 1993, MS from Peking University in 1996 & University of Chicago in 1997, and PhD in 2001 from UC Berkeley. He conducted his postdoctoral research at Stanford and UC Santa Barbara before he joined NUS chemistry in 2005. His primary research interest is optical properties of low-dimension materials and their applications in biomedicine and energy areas, spanning a broad range from fundamental understanding to practical applications. So far he has published ~200papers that have been cited >7000 times with an H-index of 51.