Haiping Fang is a professor at the School of Science, East China University of Science and Technology. He obtained his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from Shandong University, in 1985 and 1988, respectively. He received his doctorate from the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1994. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Fudan University from 1994 to 1996. He was a visiting scholar at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 1997 to 1998, and a visiting associate professor at John Hopkins University in the United States from 2000 to 2001. He was a researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, from 2001 to 2018, and has been the director of the Water Science and Technology Laboratory since 2012. He was the director and researcher of the Water Science and Technology Laboratory at the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2018 to 2020. His research mainly focused on the interdisciplinary research of interfacial water, nanobiology, and theoretical physics, and especially the properties of water and ions in confined scale space and the properties of biomolecules induced by them, and the development of new materials. He has been awarded the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, Shanghai Discipline Leader, and Shanghai Leading Talent awards.