Xiao-Qiang Hu was born in 1988. He received his B.S. from Wuhan Polytechnic University in 2011. In 2017, he received his Ph.D. under the direction of Prof. Wen-Jing Xiao and Jia-Rong Chen at Central China Normal University (CCNU). After postdoctoral research (Ruhr Explores Solvation) with Prof. Lukas J. Goossen at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2017-2019), Dr. Hu became a full professor at the School of Chemistry and Materials Science, South-Central University for Nationalities (SCUEC), China. His research interests include inert C-H bond activation, radical cascade reaction and the synthesis of biologically active heterocycles.