Manzhou Zhu?is currently the Changjiang Chair Professor of Chemistry at Anhui University in China. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2000. He then conducted postdoctoral research at USTC and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU, Pittsburgh, United States). He joined the chemistry faculty of Anhui University in 2010. His current research focuses on the controllable preparation, structure determination, structure-property correlation, and applications of atomically precise nanoclusters.