John L. Zhou is a professor and doctoral supervisor in environmental engineering, who holds a Ph.D. in Science from the University of Manchester. He is the Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China. He is also a highly regarded expert in the fields of advanced water and wastewater treatment, contaminated land remediation, energy and resource recovery from waste, and vehicle emissions detection. He has secured numerous research grants from the EU, the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Royal Society, the Leverhulme Trust, the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the NNSFC, and the National Key Research Program, among others.