Ping Cui, Ph.D., researcher, doctoral tutor, worked as a guest scientist at the University of Saarland in Germany, the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Third World Academy of Sciences in Italy, and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Kyoto University, Japan. She is a researcher at the National Institute of Materials Science in Japan. She is currently Vice President of the University of Nottingham Ningbo. She mainly engaged in nanomaterials and internal friction research. At present, her research focuses on the preparation and physical properties of organic/inorganic nanocomposite polymer materials, the application of nanomaterials, and the internal friction of solid defects. As the person in charge of the project, she has undertaken the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the 863 Project, several major and innovative projects of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, several scientific research projects in Anhui Province, the State National Tobacco Administration project and several enterprise development projects. As a principal researcher, she was awarded the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Second Prize of Natural Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Second Prize of Changzhou Science and Technology Progress. She was awarded the Scholarship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Special Allowance of the People's Government of Anhui Province, the Special Allowance of the State Council, and Ningbo City. Science and Technology Innovation Promotion Award, Zhu Liyuehua Outstanding Teacher Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has published more than 40 papers, applied for more than 10 patents, and translated one book: "Nanomaterials" (published by Atomic Energy Publishing House in 1994).