甬江实验室有机功能材料中心主任、研究员。早年武汉大学本硕毕业。后师从诺贝尔奖得主Fraser Stoddart教授并获美国西北大学博士学位，后任美国斯坦福大学博士后，合作导师为鲍哲南教授。回国前为美国德州农工大学化学系正教授、主管研究生系主任，美国化学会期刊ACS Omega资深副主编。在美期间曾主持或参与多个美国国家科学基金、美国能源部、美国国立卫生院、Welch基金会等科研项目。2025年回国加盟甬江实验室，入选浙江省顶尖人才计划，宁波市甬江人才工程鲲鹏人才专项。迄今发表论文120余篇，总引用超过9,000次，H指数49。荣获英国皇家化学会会士、美国国家科学基金会CAREER奖、洪堡资深研究奖学金、日本化学会Distinguished Lectureship Award等多项国际荣誉。其研究方向聚焦于光电功能高分子（含共轭梯状聚合物）、脑机接口材料、有机多孔材料及膜材料等领域。

Lei Fang earned his bachelor and master degrees from Wuhan University, and doctoral degree from Northwestern University under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Professor Fraser Stoddart. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University with Professor Zhenan Bao. Prior to returning to China, he served as Full Professor and Graduate Program Chair in the Department of Chemistry at Texas A&M University, and Senior Associate Editor of the ACS journal ACS Omega. During his career in the United States, he led and participated in numerous research projects funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, and the Welch Foundation. He joined Yongjiang Laboratory in 2025 and was selected into the Zhejiang Top Talent Program and the Kunpeng Talent Program of the Ningbo Yongjiang Talent Project.

To date, he has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers, with total citations exceeding 9,000 and an H-index of 49. He has received numerous international honors, including Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, NSF CAREER Award, Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Fellowship, and the Distinguished Lectureship Award of the Chemical Society of Japan. His research interests focus on optoelectronic functional polymers (including conjugated ladder polymers), brain-computer interface materials, organic porous materials, and membrane materials.