Liming Dai joined Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in fall 2009 as the Kent Hale Smith Professor in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering. He is also director of the Center of Advanced Science and Engineering for Carbon (CASE4Carbon). Dr. Dai received a BSc degree from Zhejiang University in 1983, and a PhD from the Australian National University in 1991. He accepted a postdoctoral fellowship from the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, and two years later became a visiting fellow in Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He spent 10 years with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Melbourne, Australia. Before joining the CWRU, he was an associate professor of polymer engineering at the University of Akron and the Wright Brothers Institute Endowed Chair Professor of Nanomaterials at the University of Dayton.   Dr. Dai’s expertise covers the synthesis, functionalization, and device fabrication of conjugated polymers and carbon nanomaterials for energy-related and biomedical applications. He has published more than 400 scientific papers, and held about 30 issued/applied patents. He has an h-index >100 and citations ~35,000 (Source: ISI Web of Sciences; Author query: “Dai LM” and “Dai L”). He has also published a research monograph on intelligent macromolecules (Springer), an edited book on carbon nanotechnology (Elsevier), a co-edited book on carbon nanomaterials for advanced energy systems (Wiley), and another co-edited book on carbon nanomaterials for biomedical applications (Springer). Dr. Dai serves as an Associate Editor of Nano Energy (Elsevier) and editorial board member of many international journals. He is a Highly Cited Researcher (Chemistry, Materials) and has received various awards, including the 2016 CWRU Faculty Distinguished Research Award, 2016 Honorary Fellow Award from Wollongong University (Australia), 2016 Honorary Professorship Award from National Central University (Taiwan), 2014 CWRU CSE Research Award, 2013 Zhejiang Science and Technology Award, 2013 Zhejiang Biomedical Technology Award,  2009 World Class University (WCU) Professor Award (South Korea), 2006 China (NSFC) Outstanding Overseas Young Chinese Scientist Award, 2006 Ohio Outstanding Engineer and Scientist Award, 2006 George Noland Research Award from Sigma Xi, and 2003 IUPAC Young Observer Award. He is an Advisory Committee Member of the American Carbon Society. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).