Minyan Wang was born in Henan province, People's Republic of China. She obtained her B.S. degree in applied chemistry from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2009. Then, she moved to Zhejiang University and finished her Ph.D. in organic chemistry with Prof. Shengming Ma. In 2014, she joined the group of Prof. Lukas Gooßen at TU Kaiserslautern (Germany) as a postdoctoral fellow. She joined Nanjing University at the end of 2016 and was promoted to associate professor in 2019. Her research interests include asymmetric synthetic chemistry and computational chemistry. Zhuangzhi Shi was born in Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China, in 1983. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry and organic chemistry from Yangzhou University in 2005 and 2008. Then, he moved to Peking University and completed his Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry with Prof. Ning Jiao. In 2011, he joined the group of Prof. Frank Glorius at Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Münster (Germany), as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow. In 2014, he joined the faculty at Nanjing University as a full professor. His current research efforts are focused on synthetic methodology, including the activation of inert chemical bonds, radical chemistry, boron chemistry and asymmetric catalysis.