In 1989, he obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Department of Chemical Engineering of East China University of Science and Technology, and worked in Jinan Fertilizer Plant in the same year. In 1994, he studied in Shanxi Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences for a master's degree and attained a doctor's degree in engineering in July 1999. From September 1999 to August 2001, he engaged in postdoctoral research in the Department of Thermal Energy Engineering at Tsinghua University and cooperated with Academician Yue Guangxi. In July 2001, he won the famous Humboldt Research Scholarship from the Humboldt Foundation of the German Federal Government. From December 2001 to March 2003, he worked as a Humboldt scholar at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, in cooperation with internationally renowned process engineering expert Professor Werther Joachim in research work. From April 2003, he worked in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the China University of Petroleum. In October 2005, he was appointed as one of the first Mount Taishan Scholars' Distinguished Professors (the first 36) by Shandong Provincial Government, and has worked in Qingdao University of Science and Technology since February 2006