Professor Zhengxiao Guo is a joint-faculty Professor of Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, and an Honorary Professor at University College London (UCL). He was Professor of Chemistry at UCL (2007-18), and prior to this, a Lecturer (1995-98), Reader (1998-99) and Professor (2000-07) at Queen Mary, University of London. He was a research fellow at the University of Oxford (1990-95), and of Strathclyde (1988-90), respectively, with a PhD and an MRes from the Univ. of Manchester in 1988 and 1984, and a BEng in Materials Science form Northeastern University/China in 1983, respectively.

 Professor Guo has contributed around 300 high-quality journal publications and over 300 conference papers/presentations (cited over 12000; H-Index: 57) for energy, environmental, structural and biomedical applications. He was awarded the Sir Beilby Medal (2000; 1st recipient of Chinese heritage), jointly by the Society of Chemical Industry, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Institute of the Minerals, Metals and Materials  for “Working Theory for Industry”. He is a Sir Yue-Kong Pao Lecturing Professor, Zhejiang University / China (2014-2016); and Guest Professor of Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (2010); Zhejiang Univ. (2009); Institute of Metal Research (2003); Chongqing Univ. (2002); and received the Lee-Hsun Lecture Award, Institute of Metal Research, CAS (2002). He has led and been an institutional leading partner in research consortia valued over 700m HKD (£70m) (EPSRC, EU, Industry, Royal Society, and various charities and National Science Foundation of China).