Rutao Liu is a professor and vice dean of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at Shandong University. He is the director of the Shandong Province Sino-US Cooperation Research Center for Environmental and Health Technologies. He received his doctorate from the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Shandong University in 2002. From 2002 to 2005, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher (Research Associate) in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the United States, and from 2002 to 2005, he served as a visiting researcher at the Brookhaven State Key Laboratory in the United States. He joined the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at Shandong University as a professor in September 2005. His research interests include environmental monitoring and health, studying the toxic effects and mechanisms of environmental chemical pollutants in inducing disease-related oxidative stress, signaling pathways, etc., special waste treatment and resource technology, soil assessment, and remediation. He has presided over many scientific research projects and won many awards, including the Young Scientist Award of the 11th International Conference on Toxic Substances (ISPTs) in 2014. He is the recipient of the 11th Ho Ying-Tong Education Fund and an Outstanding Talent of the New Century by the Ministry of Education.