Jia is a chair professor and vice-dean of the School of Physics and Astronomy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and acting vice-president of the Southern University of Science and Technology. He graduated in 1987 and received his PhD in condensed matter physics in 1992, both from from Peking University. In 2021, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Jia is an experimental physicist specializing in condensed matter physics. His main research interests include topological superconductors, quantum materials, and quantum phenomena in nanostructures. He has authored more than 340 scientific papers, including 6 in Science, 3 in Nature, 4 in Nature Physics, 3 in Nature Materials, and 30 in Physical Review Letters, with over 24,000 citations. He has received numerous honors, including the National Prize for Advancement in Natural Science (second class, 2004), the National Prize for Advancement in Natural Science (second class, 2011), the Group Award for Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement from the Qiu Shi Science and Technologies Foundation of Hong Kong (2011), and the National Prize for Advancement in Natural Science (second class, 2019).

He is a professor at the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He earned his Master of Science degree in plant genetics and breeding and completed his PhD in plant pathology at Zhejiang University (formerly Zhejiang Agriculture University). Following his graduate studies, he pursued postdoctoral research with the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and the Department of Plant Pathology, at the University of California, Davis. In December 2000, he was appointed as a full professor and principal investigator at the Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS. His research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of disease resistance to ensure better crop production, while reducing the use of fungicides and promoting environmentally friendly agriculture. His research interests include functional genomics, mechanisms and application of plant disease resistance, in particular broad-spectrum disease resistance genes, and the cross-talk between plant defense and growth/yield.

Chunhai Fan is a K.C. Wong Chair professor and New Cornerstone Investigator at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He serves as the Dean in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and the Executive Director of the National Center for Translational Medicine. He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, TWAS, Academia Europea, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society of Chemistry, American Institute of Medical and biological Engineering, and International Society of Electrochemistry. He is an associate editor of JACS Au, and serves as a co-chair in the editorial board of ChemPlusChem and as an editorial board member of more than 10 international journals including Angewadte Chemie, Accounts of Chemical Research and ACS Nano.

Prof. Dr. Xiyun Yan (CAS Engineering Laboratory for Nanozyme, Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences) is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, focusing on precision cancer treatment. She introduced the concept of "Nanozyme" and used nano-materials as enzyme mimics to create new methods for tumor diagnosis and nanozyme-strip for rapid local detection of infectious diseases. She has also established the standard for determining nanozyme catalytic activity, founded Nanozyme Academic Subgroup of Biophysical Society of China and developed world's first nanozyme product. Dr. Yan's original research on nanozyme has paved the way for the emergence of the interdisciplinary field of nanozymes, bridging the disciplines of enzymology, chemistry, materials science, biology, and medicine. Now, more than 1,000 nanozymes have been reported by 490 laboratories across 40 countries. The significance of nanozymes has been acknowledged by Clarivate, which designated it as a "key hot frontier" in 2022. Additionally, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) recognized Nanozyme as one of the top ten new technologies in 2022.

Tang obtained his Bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Peking University in 1984, and his PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Leeds, in 1989. From 2015 to 2019, he was the vice-president and provost at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). From 2019 to 2024, he served as the president of Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC). Professor Tang was widely known for his expertise in the fields of computational mathematics and computational fluid dynamics. In recent years, his research has been focusing on adaptive grid methods, high-order methods for PDEs, and numerical methods for phase-field equations. Tang is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, and a TWAS Fellow. He is also a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2018, he was asked to deliver an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians.