Xiaohong Yao is a professor at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China. He received his bachelor’s degree from Peking University in 1990, his master’s degree from the Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993, and his doctorate from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1996. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghua University from 1996 to 1998, as a research associate at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 1998 to 2007, and as a research associate at the University of Toronto from 2007 to 2009. He joined Ocean University of China as a professor in 2009. He is a third-level distinguished professor of the “Zhufeng Talent Project”. He is mainly engaged in the research of urban and regional atmospheric pollution chemistry and marine atmospheric chemistry. In recent years, his research direction has focused on the growth mechanism of atmospheric aerosol particles and climate impact research, and marine atmospheric N cycle research. He has won the Haggen-Smit Prize International Academic Award and 1 Shandong Provincial Natural Science Second Prize. He has successively presided over 4 National Natural Science Foundation projects and 1 National Key Research Program project.