Dr. Yuping Wu is a distinguished professor of Nanjing Tech University since 2015. He has been among the highly cited researchers in the world, and was named in the World's Most Influential Minds (2015) list by Thomson Reuters. His main research work is on energy storage and conversion systems. He created the first company to mass produce the third generation of gel separators for lithium batteries. 

Rudolf Holze is a professor of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. His research is focused on spectroelectrochemistry, self-assembled monolayers, electrochemical energy conversion and storage, electrochemical materials science and corrosion. He is also a professor leading a research group on electrochemical energy storage materials and processes at St. Petersburg State University, Russia; he is a distinguished professor at Nanjing Tech University, China.