Prof. Dr. HongXing Gui currently serves as a Researcher at the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences. He received his Master of Engineering in Agricultural Products Storage and Processing degree at South China Tropical Crops College in 1995, and his Doctor of Engineering degree in Materials Science and Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology in 2004. He carried out postdoctoral research at the Chemistry Postdoctoral Mobile Station of Sun Yat-sen University (2005-2007). He was a  visiting scholar at Ibaraki University, Japan, in 2009. He worked as a Lecturer and Associate Professor at the South China University of Tropical Agriculture (Hainan University) (1995-2010), and as an Associate Researcher and Researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Products Processing, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (2010-2016). His research interests mainly include flame retardants, rubber, and agriculture.