Pingan SongDr. Pingan Song is currently Associate Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow. He obtained his PhD degree in Chemistry from the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University in 2009. Since 2009, he joined Zejiang A &F University as Lecturer and then promoted to Associate Professor (2011) and Full Professor (2016). In late 2016, he moved to Centre for Future Materials, University of Southern Queensland as Associate Professor. His research focuses on the synthesis of eco-benign fire retardants for polymer materials, fire-warning sensors, and polymer blends and modifications as well as the understanding of processing-structure-property correlations. He has co-authored over peer-reviewed 150 articles (citations: 6600+, H-index = 51, until 9/2021 according to Google Scholar) in some prestigious international journals, such as Progress in Materials Science, Progress in Polymer Science, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Green Chemistry, Chemistry of Materials, Macromolecules, and ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. He has also filed over 20 invention patents and delivered over 20 keynotes and invited talks at international/domestic conferences. As a Chief Investigator, to date he has secured over 30 research grants from different funding bodies, such as Australian Research Council and National Natural Science Foundation of China. Read More Read Less