Dr. Wei is a professor of the School of Textiles and Clothing at Jiangnan University. He currently serves as Director of the Key Laboratory of Eco-textiles within the Ministry of Education of P.R. China at Jiangnan University. He is a recipient of the 2006 Award for New Century Excellent Talents in Universities from the Chinese Ministry of Education. His research interests lie in the surfaces and interfaces of functional textiles, nanostructured textile materials and smart textiles. His research has been funded by the National Key Research and Development Plan, the National High-tech Research Plan (863), the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Jiangsu Department of Science and Technology. He has also been awarded a Second Prize of the Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education and the First Prize of the Science and Technology Award by China General Chamber of Commerce. He has authored two English books and published more than 400 articles in the international peer-reviewed journals. He has been selected into Elsevier's Highly Cited Chinese Researchers in Textile Science & Engineering from 2020 to 2022.