Jialong Zhao received his Bachelor's and Master’s degree at Department of Physics, Jilin University in 1986 and 1989. He joined Changchun Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a research assistant, an assistant and associate professor, studying optical properties of semiconductor nanocrystals and thin films from 1989 to 1995. He completed his Ph.D. in Physics under the supervision of Professor Yasuaki Masumoto at University of Tsukuba in 2001, working on exciton states and phonon modes as well as their coupled states of cuprous halide quantum dots. He studied electroluminescence of CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals and Raman spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes in University of Mainz for about three years with Professor Thomas Basche and Professor Alf Mews as a postdoctoral fellow from 2001 to 2003. He then studied magneto-optical properties of metal-doped ZnO nanocrystals and fabricated efficient CdSe/CdS quantum dot light-emitting diodes as a postdoctor with Professor Daniel Gamelin and Professor David Ginger in University of Washington from 2003 to 2007. Dr. Zhao joined Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007. He was awarded “One Hundred Talent Program: Fabrication of quantum dots/organic light-emitting diodes with controlled quantum dot layers” by Chinese Academy of Sciences and became a professor in 2008. Zhao’s current research focuses on optoelectronic properties of colloidal inorganic nanocrystals and their devices. The research objective is to fabricate efficient quantum dot light-emitting diodes and solar cells by controlling the structures of quantum dots and their devices for development of next generation optoelectronic devices. He authored over 80 scientific publications in this field that have been cited (over 400 citations).