Dr. Jun ZHU obtained the bachelor’s degree from Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University in 2000 and the doctor of philosophy from Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2007. Then he pursued postdoctoral studies at Dan Yang’s group (The University of Hong Kong) and Henrik Ottosson’s group (Uppsala University), respectively. He joined Xiamen University in 2010 to start the independent career and was promoted to a full professor in 2018. In 2023, he moved to the School of Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He has been funded by seven projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and earned an extensive experience in computational organometallic chemistry including analyses of novel structures, bonding (aromaticity) and reaction mechanisms including dinitrogen activation by theoretical calculation. He proposed the concept of adaptive aromaticity beyond the classical Hückel and Baird’s rule, moving the aromatic chemistry forward from one-state aromaticity to two-state aromaticity and developed the application of this concept to singlet fission materials. He has published 219 SCI-indexed papers including those published in high impact journals such as Accounts of Chemical Research, Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition etc. He received various awards including the New Century Excellent Talents in University (2013), the Leading Talent in the Fujian Province (2015), the First Prize of the Natural Science in Fujian Province (the third authorship, 2019), the Second Prize of the National Natural Science (the third authorship, 2020).