Runping Ye received his Ph.D. degree in 2019 from Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He also visited the University of Wyoming during 2017–2018. He conducted postdoctoral research at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS during 2019–2021. He is currently a Special-Term Professor at Nanchang University. His focus is on the heterogeneous catalysts for the hydrogenation of carbon oxygen bonds such as CO2 and DMO.