Xiaogang Peng received his B.S. (1987) and Ph.D. (1992) from Jilin University. His Ph.D. research was about Langmuir-Boldgett films with Professors Tiejin Li and Jiachong Shen. His Postdoctoral experience followed by a position as Staff Scientist at UC Berkeley with Professor Paul Alivisatos between 1994 and 1999 brought him into the field of colloidal nanocrystals. In 1999, he joined the University of Arkansas as Assistant Professor of Chemistry, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003 and Full Professor in 2005(honored as Scharlau Chair Professor of Chemistry in the same year). In 2009, he joined the Department of Chemistry at Zhejiang University to start a new adventure in an old country.