Ali Kamali is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Metallurgy, Northeastern University, China, a former Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, and the co-founder of four materials companies, including Cambridge Silicon Age. He is the inventor or co-inventor of several technologies concerning the large-scale green preparation of carbon nanotubes, graphene, nanodiamonds, metal powders and intermetallic alloys, some of which have been transferred to industry. He is the corresponding/first author of more than 100 technical papers and has received a number of awards, including the International Khwarizmi Award (2005) and NSFC Young International Scientist Fellowship (2017). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.