Yongkui Yang is an associate professor at the School of Environment, Tianjin University, and the director of the Department of Environmental Science and Ecology. He received his doctorate from the Department of Environment, Kyoto University, Japan. He was a special researcher at the Center for Integrated Environmental Quality Research of Watersheds, Kyoto University, Japan. He has been engaged in research on new pollutants (characteristic pollutants) in water environments and parks and soil and groundwater pollution remediation for a long time. He has presided over and participated in more than 10 provincial and ministerial projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Water Pollution Control and Science and Technology Major Project, the National Fund International Cooperation and Exchange Project, the Tianjin Natural Science Foundation, the Tianjin Major Science and Technology Project, and the Hebei Provincial Key R&D Project. His research results won the second prize of the 2023 Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award, the third prize of the 2022 Hebei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, and the second prize of the 2021 China Environmental Protection Industry Association Environmental Technology Progress Award.