Shengqian Ma obtained his B.S. degree from Jilin University, China in 2003, and graduated from Miami University (Ohio) with a Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Hong-Cai Joe Zhou (currently at Texas A&M University) in 2008. After finishing two-year Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at Argonne National Laboratory, he joined the Department of Chemistry at University of South Florida (USF) as an Assistant Professor in August 2010. He was promoted to an Associate Professor with early tenure in 2015 and to a Full Professor in 2018.He received the 2015 USF Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award and 2018 Outstanding Faculty Award. He is the recipient of 2014 NSF CAREER Award and has been selected as the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019; he was also awarded the IUPAC-2015 Young Chemist Travel Award and the 2009 IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists from International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry (IUPAC); he received the Young Investigator Award from American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Inorganic Chemistry and the Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship from Argonne National Laboratory in 2008 as well.His current research interest focuses on the development of functional porous materials including metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent organic frameworks (COFs), porous organic polymers (POPs), and microporous carbon materials for energy, biological,environmental-related applications. He has published more than 220 papers (over 180 since independent career) with the total citations over 22000 and the H-index of 77Education2003 Jilin University, Changchun, China, BS in Applied Chemistry2008 Miami University, Oxford, OH, PhD in Chemistry (Advisor: Hong-Cai Joe Zhou)Professional Experience2001-2003 Undergraduate Research Assistant, State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, Jilin University, China (Supervisor: Feng-Shou Xiao)2003‐2008 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Miami University, Oxford, OH (Advisor: Hong-Cai Joe Zhou)2008‐2010 Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL(Supervisor: Dijia Liu)2010‐2015 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida,Tampa, FL2015‐2018 Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida,Tampa, FL2018‐Present Full Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

We are a synthetic inorganic and organic materials research group focusing on task-specific design and functionalization of advanced porous materials. The space within nanoporous materials provides virtually unlimited room for imagination, allowing designed incorporation of different functionalities for numerous potential applications. The research of our group aims to engineering the nanospace of advanced porous materials including metal-organic frameworks (MOF), covalent organic framework (COF) and porous organic polymer (POP) for energy/biological/environmental-related applications centered on the following topics:1. Rational design and functionalization of MOF materials for catalysis2. Exploration of mesoporous MOF/COF as a new type of platform for enzyme/protein immobilization3. Development of functional porphyrin-based framework materials4. Task-specific design and functionalization of COF/POP materials for water treatment5. Rational design and functionalization of COF/POP materials for catalysis6. Rational design and functionalization of MOF/POP/COF materials for gas storage and gas separation7. Targeted synthesis of microporous carbon and nanostructured materials from MOFs/COFs/POPs