Jian Xiong received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Central South University in 2015. Then, he joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology as an associate professor. Now, he is deputy director of the Department of New energy Materials and Devices. In 2020–2021, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Jackson State University in USA. His main research interests lie in the materials design, device engineering and device physics for polymer solar cells and perovskite solar cells. More than 60 research papers have been published in SCI journals of Nano Energy, Chemical Engineering Journal, Nanoscale etc., and 6 Chinese patents have been obtained. He hosted one National Natural Science Foundation project, three Guangxi Natural Science Foundation Project and 4 research funds of Guilin University of Electronic Science and Technology.