Huiqi Zhang has been a Full Professor at the Institute of Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University since 2006. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in polymer chemistry and physics from Nankai University. He was a faculty staff at the Department of Applied Chemistry and College of Chemical Engineering at Tianjin University (1996–1999) and post-doc at the University of Twente and Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands,1999–2004) and Lund University (Sweden, 2004–2006). His current research interests are biomimetic and intelligent polymers, with his main focus being on design, synthesis, and application studies of water-compatible molecularly imprinted polymers and photoresponsive reactive liquid crystalline polymers.