Prof. Dr. Qiu holds a B.S. and a Ph.D. from University of Science and Technology Beijing in 1988 and 1994, respectively. His research interests focused on the advanced power sources, such as lithium ion batteries, direct methanol fuel cells and battery packages for electric storage. The main directions include new electrode materials for lithium ion battery, new catalysts for fuel cell, polymer electrolytes, electrode kinetics, the structure of porous electrode and new techniques for battery characterization.