Professor Qixing Zhou is the Director of the Academic Commission, the former Dean (2005.12–2017.06), College of Environment Science and Engineering; the Director of the Researching Centre of Environment, Ecology, and Natural Resources; and also a Member of the Academic Commission, Nankai University, China. His research covers the following fields: environmental and green advanced materials; bioelectrochemistry and energy; pollution ecology and ecological geochemistry; environmental ecology; environmental remediation and ecological regulation; and ecotoxicology and environmental criteria/standards. More than 600 refereed papers have been published in academic journals such as Nature Catalysis, Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy Of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), and Environmental Science & Technology. In addition, 16 monographic books have been published, more than 50 invention patents have been authorized, and he has been invited to give over 100 plenary lectures and keynote speeches at both national and international academic conferences.