Dr. Zhengwu Jiang is a Distinguished professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University. He is a director of the Key Laboratory of Advanced Civil Engineering Materials, Ministry of Education, China. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Building Materials, the vice chairman of the Cement Committee and Solid Waste Committee (the Chinese Ceramic Society), the director of the Fundamental Theory and Application of Concrete Committee (the Architectural Society of China) and is an ACI and RILEM member. He obtained his doctorate from Tongji University, China, in 2002. He spent one year at the University of British Columbia as a visiting scholar from 2007 to 2008. He was also a senior visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Due to his contribution to the sustainable development of high-performance concrete in China, he has been awarded more than 10 national, provincial, and ministerial awards, including 2nd prize in the National Technology Invention Awards and 2nd prize in the Ministry of Education Technology Invention Awards. His current interests are the characterization of manufactured sand and its application in concrete as the fine aggregate, sustainable cement-based materials, the self-healing of cement-based materials and the properties of concrete in extreme environments.