Prof. Ruiqi Shen was born in 1963, and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology in 1986 and 1991, respectively. Since 2000, he has been a Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. He is also head of the Nano-micro Energetic Devices Key Laboratory of MIIT and director of the Institute of Space Propulsion (ISP) at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. He is interested in laser chemistry and physics, Nano-materials, Microfluidics, MEMS, combustion, and space propulsion.