Zhixiong Ruan was born in Guangdong, P.R. China, in 1987. After he obtained his B.Eng. in Pharmaceutical Engineering at Guangdong University of Technology and M.Sc. in Medicinal Chemistry at Jinan University, he joined the research group of Prof. Dr. Lutz Ackermann at Georg-August-University of Göttingen, and he obtained his PhD degree in Chemistry in 2017. Afterwards, he took a Professor position at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University. His current research interests are focused on organometallic chemistry, organic electrochemistry, and medicinal chemistry.