Professor at Princeton University, former dean of chemistry department and materials research institute at Princeton University. He is a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, foreign fellow of the Royal Society of London. He has received the Materials Science Wulff Award, the American Chemical Society Material Chemistry Award and Inorganic Chemistry Award, the Humboldt Research Award. His main research interest is in the synthesis, structure and electromagnetic property of inorganic solid material. So far, he has published 880+ articles. The total citation is more than 58000 times. The H index is 111.