Dr. Xiao-Feng Sun is a full-time associate professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. He obtained his PhD degree at Bangor University of the United Kingdom in 2006, and then, as a research officer, he worked on an industrial based project involving the use of a mixed culture of microbes to produce a specific synthon for the pharmaceutical industry. In 2007, he came back to China, and focused his studies on environmental materials at Zhejiang University. Now he works at Northwestern Polytechnical University, and he has published more than 100 papers which have been cited more than 6000 times by other scientists. His research concerns natural polymers and nanomaterials in the environmental protection and the biomedical field. He has obtained 8 academic awards from the Chinese government and international society, and he is a fellow of IAAM, Elsevier 2020 Highly Cited Chinese Researchers and World top 2% scientists (whole career), and he has become an academic editor of International Journal of Environment and Climate Change, Environment Pollution and Climate Change, and  Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International, and he is also an editorial board member of Polymers and International Journal of Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine.