Xinliang Feng is Director at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle and Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), both Germany. His current scientific interests include: synthetic methodologies for new types of polymers; organic and polymer synthesis; interfacial chemistry; the supramolecular chemistry of π-conjugated systems; the bottom-up synthesis of carbon nanostructures and graphene nanoribbons; two-dimensional (2D) organic crystals, including 2D (supramolecular) polymers; 2D conjugated polymers and 2D conjugated metal-organic frameworks for use in optoelectronics, spintronics, and molecular quantum computing devices; electrochemical exfoliation of 2D crystals; graphene and 2D materials for use in energy storage and conversion and in new energy devices and technologies. Prof. Feng has published over 789 research articles, which have received more than 121,845 citations, giving him an H-index of 171 on Google Scholar. He has received several prestigious awards, including the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists (2009), the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Award (2012), the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship Award (2013), and the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship (2014). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, 2014) and a Highly Cited Researcher (Thomson Reuters, 2014–2021). He has also received the Small Young Innovator Award (2017), the Hamburg Science Award (2017), the EU-40 Materials Prize (2018), the ERC Consolidator Grant Award (2018), and the ERC Synergy Grant Award (2024). He is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences (2019), the Academia Europaea (2019), the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech, 2021), and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2024). He sits on the advisory boards of Advanced Materials, Chemical Science, the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Energy Storage Materials, Chemistry: An Asian Journal, and Trends in Chemistry, among others. He is head of the Graphene Center Dresden and spokesperson for the DFG Collaborative Research Center for the Chemistry of Synthetic 2D Materials (since 2020).