Dr. Yong Yang is the Distinguished Professor and Director of Research Institute of Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering at Xiamen University. He is an Associate Editor of J Power Sources, serves as an IBA board member and advisory members of several leading international conference Lithium batteries. He received his PhD degree in Physical Chemistry at Xiamen University in 1992 and was an academic visitor at PTCL of University of Oxford, UK during 1997-1998. Up to now, he has published 290 peer-reviewed papers in the journals, 30 patents and 4 book chapters. He was awarded the IBA technology award in 2014. His major interests include research of novel electrode/electrolyte materials, in-situ studies of electrochemical reaction mechanism and interfacial properties for Li-ion and Li-metal batteries, new battery system such as Na-ion and solid state batteries