Professor Lin Guo is the first professor directly appointed by the president of Beihang University, and was elected as the Yangtze River scholar professor authorized by the Ministry of Education. He was funded by the National Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars, and was awarded numerous titles, such as Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was also recognized as the talent with outstanding contributions to science and technology management, excellent party members in Beijing Universities, excellent teacher in Beijing, excellent graduate tutors in Beijing, and won the honor of “BaoGang Excellent Teacher”. He published more than 400 academic papers in international journals such as Science, Nature, Nat. Catal., Nat. Mater., JACS, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., PNAS, and Chem. Rev., which were cited more than 21,000 times. Among the PhD students under his supervision, four students were supported by National Outstanding Youth Fund, one student was awarded National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation, and three students were awarded Beijing Excellent Doctoral Dissertation. In the past five years, as the project leader, he presided over one National Key R&D Plan and two key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. In 2010, he won the first prize of Natural Science by the Ministry of Education, and in 2013, he won the second prize of National Natural Science.