Liyan Song is a professor of the School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Anhui University, where he has served as faculty member since May 2020. He received his PhD in Environmental Engineering in Tongji University, Shanghai, PRC, in September 2006 and held two posted postdoctoral positions in Michigan State University (MSU) and University of Michigan (UM) from January 2007 to December 2009 and January 2010 to October 2011, respectively. From 2011 to 2020, he served as a professor of the Environmental Microbiology and Ecology (EME) Research Center at the Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology (CIGIT), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS). He currently leads the Environmental Microbiology and Ecology Research group at Anhui University, which focuses on integrating microbiology, molecular biology, ecology, environmental engineering and dynamics in environmental pollution and control to further our understanding of environmental pollution and the control process.