Xiao Feng is an associate professor at research center for eco-environmental sciences, Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing. He earned his BSc and MSc degrees from Xian Jiaotong University, Xian, China. In 2009, he obtained his PhD in environmental engineering from the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. After graduation, he joined RCEES as an assistant professor (2010-2013). From 2014, he has been appointed as an associate professor in this research institute. His scientific area is mainly focused on water and environmental issues. His scientific interests include particle transport in natural waters; coagulation and flocculation in water and wastewater treatment; membrane application and advanced oxidation processes (AOP) in water and wastewater treatment.Xiao has published more than 40 SCI papers in peer-reviewed journals and hasfive Chinese patents related to water and wastewater treatment. As a principle investigator, his research funding is over six million CNY both from government and companies. He also is selected as a member of IWA Young Water Professionals (IWA-YWP) in China.
Wang is a professor and the director of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He obtained his B.Sc on nuclear physics in 1984 at the Nanjing University, China, and Ph.D on high energy physics in 1991 at the University of Florence, Italy. He is a membner of ACFA and ICFA, the author of more than 500 scientific papers, the chief editor of two books. He received prizes include the “Zhou Guangzhou Basic Science award”, the “Ho Leung Ho Lee Award for Scientific and Technological Progress”, the National Natural science award 1st grade and the Future Science Prize from China; the NIKKEI Asia Prize for Science, Technology and Environment from Japan, the “W. K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics” and the “Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics” from the US. He is a member of CAS, and RAS.
Li is E. B. Eddy Chair Professor and Canada Research Chair at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He obtained his PhD at McGill University (1992) and was a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University (1992-94). He was an Assistant (1994), Associate (1998) and Full Professor (2000) at Tulane University (US). Since 2003, he has been at McGill University. He serves as the Director of NSERC CREATE for Green Chemistry and the Co-Director of the FQRNT Center for Green Chemistry and Catalysis. Li received a number of prestigious awards/honors worldwide. These include the US NSF’s CAREER Award, a US Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, the Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering Award, and the R. U. Lemieux and Alfred Bader Awards of the Canadian Chemical Society, Alexander Humboldt Research Award, and the CIC Medal of Canada. His memberships include the Fellows of the RSC (Canada), RSC (UK), the AAAS, the CIC, and the ACS.