Yuechen Jia received degrees of B.Sc. (2010) and Ph.D. (2015) at Shandong University, China. His Ph.D. work focused on waveguide-based solid-state lasers and nonlinear optical frequency converters realized by ion beam technology and femtosecond laser micromachining. From 2016 to 2018, he worked on crystalline whispering gallery resonators and epitaxial ferroelectric thin films for applications in nonlinear optics at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow. In 2019, he researched on resonant all-dielectric nanostructures for strong light-matter interactions at Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Canada, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. In 2020, he was appointed Professor of Optics at Shandong University supported by the "Young Taishan Scholars Program" of Shandong Province and the "Qilu Young Scholars Program" of Shandong University. He has more than 40 papers published in peer-reviewed journals.