Prof Long Yu is currently Chief Scientist, Institute of Chemistry, Henan Academy of Sciences and Professor in South China University and Technology. He received his BE from South China University and Technology and PhD from Monash University. He had been studied and worked in Australia during 1988-2015. Prof L. Yu joints South China University of Technology and works as Team Leader of Guangdong Innovative & Entrepreneurial Research Team Program in 2015. He was pointed as first Director of Sino-Singapore International Joint Research Institute (2016-2022)

He used to work in CSIRO, Australia as Principal Scientist for 18 years. Prof Yu has had more than 190 SCI papers published and citation time is near 20000 (h-index 71). He has been selected as a Fellow of Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 2002, and currently been pointed as Editorial Board of 8 SCI journals. Professor Yu has chaired many international conferences and given numerous plenary/keynote/invited talks in various international conferences and symposia.