Yu Chen is a full professor at East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai. He received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry under the direction of Prof. Dr. Zu-En Huang at Fudan University in July 1996. Since 1996 he has been a member of the Department of Chemistry at Fudan University wherein he spent 1.5 years earning his Associate Professor's position. Starting from February 2000, he took four-month German language Course in Geothe Institute at Schwaebisch Hall as an Alexander von Humboldt language scholar. He then joined Prof. Dr. Michael Hanack’s group at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Tuebingen, as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow and as a research associate. At the end of October 2002, he moved to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington at Seattle, USA, and worked with Prof. Dr. Alex K. Y. Jen as a research associate. In February 2004, he joined the Professor Dr. Osamu Ito’s group at the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University at Sendai (Japan) as a research scientist of CREST, JST. He has published more than 300 papers, reviews and communications in the peer-review journals such as Nature Commmun., Chem. Soc. Rev., Prog. Mater. Sci., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Sci., Mater. Horizons, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, Chem. Mater. and others. His main research interests include organic synthesis; Organic and/or polymeric functional materials designed for nonlinear optics, OLED/PLED, organic solar cells, molecular memory devices; fullerene chemistry; phthalocyanine chemistry; and photo-induced electron transfer processes of conjugated polymers.