Prof. Renhua Qiu received a B.Sc. degree from Hunan Normal University in 2004 and received his Ph.D. from Hunan University in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Shuang-Feng Yin and Prof. Xinhua Xu. He was a research assistant (2010) with Prof. Chak-Tong Au at Hong Kong Baptist University and visiting researcher (2011) with Prof. Li-Biao Han at AIST (Tsukuba, Japan). He visited Osaka University (Japan) as a JSPS Postdoc Fellow with Prof. Nobuaki Kambe from 2012 to 2014. He was appointed as an associate professor at Hunan University in 2014, and in 2020, he was promoted as a full professor. Prof. Qiu’s main research interest includes organometallic chemistry, Lewis acid catalysis, and C–H activation.