He Zuoli, professor, doctoral supervisor. Young expert of Mount Taishan Scholars in Shandong Province, and a future young scholar of Shandong University. He serves as an editorial board member of Coatings, a young editorial board member of the Chinese J. Catal., Acta Phys. - chem. Sin., and Rare Met. In July 2024, he received the Outstanding Contribution Award of the Young Editorial Board of the Acta Phys. - chem. Sin.

At present, the main research direction is the application of functional composite materials (mainly including heterojunction catalysts, metal single atom modified semiconductor photocatalysts, organic-inorganic composite materials, etc.) in energy, environment, and medicine (including photocatalytic hydrogen production, hydrocarbon conversion, multi technology collaborative removal of organic pollutants, pollutant sensing and monitoring technology, biomedicine, etc.), involving multiple fields such as environmental chemistry, inorganic chemistry, material chemistry, electrochemistry, organic chemistry, coordination chemistry, and energy chemistry. In recent years, a series of innovative research achievements have been made in the application of photocatalytic technology (especially in the development of efficient heterojunction catalysts, photocatalytic coupling technology in the treatment of antibiotic and chlorophenol industrial wastewater) and the development of functional composite materials (especially in composite fiber strain sensors, composite fiber humidity sensors, photocatalytic fiber fabrics, and novel Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter). More than 50 academic papers have been published as the first or corresponding author in renowned journals, such as Small, Chinese J. Catal., Nano Energy, Appl. Catal. B, Carbon, NPJ Clean Water, Chem. Eng. J., J. Mater. Technol., ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, Rare Metals, Mater. Today Nano, Nanoscale....(for more published papers, please refer to: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6175-2447 ）. Among them, two published papers have won the JMST Highly Cited Paper Award and the Outstanding Paper Award in the Journal of Catalysis. Two papers have been selected as hot topics and three papers have been highly cited papers. The total number of citations of the papers is more than 4300 times, and the highest citation of a single paper is more than 500 times. He has been continuously selected for the top 2% of global scientists in 2023, 2024, and 2025, ranking from 236706 to 207680 to 137936, an increase of nearly 100000. Applied for 5 Chinese national invention patents (3 have been authorized), 2 South African patents, and 1 South Korean invention patent.

The research group currently has 2 postdoctoral fellows, 3 doctoral students, 4 master students, and over 10 undergraduate students. The research group has complete equipment, including 2 tube furnaces, muffle furnaces, vacuum rotary sealing machines, hydrogen oxygen flame sealing machines, freeze centrifuges, freeze dryers, electrospinning machines, wet spinning machines, melt spinning machines, 3D printers, screen printing machines, homogenizers, DC sputtering machines, rotary evaporators, plasma cleaning machines, power adjustable ultrasonic cleaning machines, Sonics cell crushers, vacuum drying ovens, blast drying ovens, photothermal reaction kettles and other material preparation instruments, which can meet the requirements of high dispersion catalyst powder synthesis, film and fiber preparation. At the same time, there are various types of light sources (6 xenon lamps, 1 monochromatic light source, 1 monochromator), Fuli gas chromatography, Shimadzu liquid chromatography, Shenghan ion chromatography, atomic force microscope, scanning tunneling microscope, Chenhua electrochemical workstation, probe testing platform, universal material testing machine, high-precision Bobby surface analyzer, 2 UV visible spectrophotometer (Shimadzu+Jinghua), composite gas monitoring instrument, Jishi multimeter, conductivity meter, water quality analyzer, BOD analyzer (including biochemical incubator), TOC analyzer and other equipment, which can meet different photocatalytic activity tests, material surface characterization, photoelectric performance tests, material mechanical performance tests, organic pollutants and inorganic ions in water. Qualitative and quantitative analysis, water quality analysis, etc.