Prof. Dr. Zhanlong Song is currently the director of the Institute of Energy and Environmental Engineering, the director of the Department of New Energy Science and Engineering, and the deputy director of the National Engineering Laboratory for Coal Combustion Pollutant Reduction (Shandong University). He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Thermal Engineering at Southeast University, and his bachelor's and master's degrees from the School of Energy and Power Engineering at Shandong University. His research areas include new energy and hydrogen production technologies, waste resource recycling, energy storage technology, microwave thermal utilization technology, etc.