Dr. Dongfeng Xue, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Corresponding Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (Paris), is now a full professor of Materials Chemistry and Engineering, director of Multiscale Crystal Materials Research Center, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in inorganic chemistry at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry in 1998. Following postdoctoral studies at Universität Osnabrück, University of Ottawa, National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, he was promoted to a full professor in 2001 at Dalian University of Technology, China. In 2011, he returned to Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry to assume his professorship in inorganic chemistry. In 2020, he moved to Shandong University to take a full professor position in materials science and engineering. In 2021, he created Multiscale Crystal Materials Research Center, and took his full professor position at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology. He has authored or coauthored more than 600 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Phys. Rev. Lett., and CrystEngComm. He has delivered more than 50 invited lectures at international conferences. He has more than 20 Chinese patents on ceramics. He is a winner of China National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars (2011), and a winner of 2011 ISFM Excellent Scientist Award, 2019 ISMMM Outstanding Contribution Award, 2019 IUPAC & NMS Distinguished Award. He serves as associate editor of CrystEngComm, and editorial board member of several prestigious journals such as Crystals, Materials, Science China Technological Sciences, Journal of Rare Earths, Materials Research Bulletin, Journal of Porous Materials, Functional Materials Letters, and Nanoscale Research Letters. His research interests focus on multiscale crystallization of inorganic matter for energy, environmental and optical applications.