Guo Lin, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is a tenured full professor appointed under the President’s Recruitment Program at Beihang University. He serves as the Chair Professor of the Lantian Program and the Principal Investigator for the First-Level Discipline of Chemistry. He is a Distinguished Professor of the Changjiang Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education, a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and a recipient of the State Council Special Allowance. He is also the Principal Investigator of a Major Project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a Chief Scientist of a National Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, a Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His honors include the Baosteel Outstanding Teacher Award (2013), the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Science, Technology, and Management in Beijing (2016), the Beijing Outstanding Teacher Award (2017), the Beijing Outstanding Supervisor for Graduate Students Award (2020), the Beihang Lide Shuren Excellence Award (2020), and the National Outstanding Teacher Award (2024).

Professor Guo Lin has long been engaged in research on the synthesis and properties of amorphous inorganic micro-nano materials, establishing a methodology for the chemical synthesis of amorphous micro-nano materials and a theory of their structure–activity relationships. He has published over 450 papers in SCI-indexed journals, which have received more than 27,000 citations. He has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics and Elsevier. He holds 45 authorized national invention patents. He was invited to author the English-language academic monograph Amorphous Nanomaterials (2021, Wiley-VCH) and received the Excellent Author Award for this work. As the lead recipient, he has been honored with the First Prize in Natural Sciences from the Ministry of Education (2010), the Second Prize in Natural Sciences from the State Council of China (2013), the First Prize in Natural Sciences from the Chinese Society of Particuology (2024), and the Dalton Horizon Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (2024).