Huisheng Peng received his BEng in Polymer Materials from Donghua University in China in 1999, MSc in Polymer Science from Fudan University in China in 2003 and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Tulane University in USA in 2006. He worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, US Department of Energy, from 2006 to 2008. He has been appointed as Professor at the Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials at Fudan University since 2008, became Changjiang Chair Professor in 2014, and started as the University Professor since 2020. 

Professor Peng has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers and 4 books with H-index of 90. He obtains 78 licensed patents with 36 royally transferred to the industry. He receives over 30 national and international awards such as the Second Prize of National Natural Science Award, makes editorial services for over 20 journals like Adv. Mater. and Adv. Funct. Mater., and serves for over 20 professional organizations such as Science and Technology Commission Member of Ministry of Education of China.