Prof. Chao Gao joined the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, and was promoted as a full Professor in 2008. In 2001, he was a faculty member in SJTU, and Associate Professor in 2002. Since Nov. 2003, he worked with Prof. Sir Harry Kroto as a visiting scholar and postdoc research fellow in the University of Sussex, UK, and then moved to Prof. Axel H. E. Müller’s group at Bayreuth University, Germany in July 2005 as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow.

His research interests include hyperbranched polymers and graphene. He co-edited a book on hyperbranched polymers (published by John, Wiley & Sons) and published more than 170 papers with citation of 10000 times and H-index 54. His research of graphene fiber knot has been selected by Nature as “Images of the Year” in 2011. He was awarded or funded with QIAN Baojun Fiber Award Young Scholar, National “Ten-thousand Talents Program”, 2013 Ten Pieces of News in Science and Technology in China, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the least dense solid Guinness World Records, “Gold Kangaroo” World Innovation Award, Academician of Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM), Zhejiang Youth Technology Award, and Top 100 National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China.