Dr. Bing Yan is a Professor at the School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tongji University in Shanghai, China. Dr. Yan is a member of the technical committees on Rare Earth Luminescence and Rare Earth Molecular Materials and Supramolecular Devices for the Chinese Society of Rare Earth. His research specialties include rare earth chemistry, hybrid materials, micro-nano materials, photophysical devices, and chemical sensors. He has published more than 500 research papers in international peer reviewed journals indexed by the Web of Science. His publications have been cited more than 10000 times. He has been elected as the Most Cited Researchers in China (Material Science) by Elsevier (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019). Recently, many papers are elected as ESI “Hot Paper? and ESI “Highly Cited Papers?. He has written one English monograph, one English Chapter and one Chinese Chapter. His group has made systematic research achievements in photofunctional rare earth materials, especially in photofunctional rare earth hybrid materials, becoming the leading research group in this field.