Professor Junwei Gu, Dean of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University, Ph.D. Supervisor, Chinese National-Level Leading Talent, Shaanxi Provincial Outstanding Young Researcher, and Leader of the Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Team for “Thermally Conductive Polymer Composites”. He has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining. He has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate and a Most Cited Chinese Researcher by Elsevier. He currently serves as Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Society for Composite Materials (CSCM), Director of the Talent Evaluation Committee, and Executive Deputy Director of the Thermally Conductive Composites Division of CSCM. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science and Technology and the MIIT Key Laboratory of Special Functional & Smart Polymer Material. His research focuses primarily on the design, preparation, and processing of functional polymer composites and fiber-reinforced advanced resin-based composites. 

As the first recipient of the awards, he has received 4 provincial- and ministerial-level scientific research awards, including the First Prize of the Shaanxi Provincial Natural Science Award and the First Prize of the Technical Invention Award of the China Light Industry Council. He has also received the Morand-Lambla Award for Achievement from the International Polymer Processing Society (PPS) and the Young Scientist Award of CSCM. He has led more than 40 national, provincial, and ministerial-level research projects, including Key Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). As first and/or corresponding author, he has published more than 260 SCI-indexed papers in journals including Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and National Science Review. He has co-authored four monographs and holds 40 granted invention patents. He currently serves as Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member for several international journals, including Nano-Micro Letters and Composites Science and Technology. He has also authored or co-authored four textbooks and received four national, provincial, and ministerial-level awards for teaching achievements.