Prof. Dr. Bao-Jian Zhan received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is currently an associate professor, distinguished researcher, and master's tutor at the School of Civil and Transportation Engineering of Shenzhen University. He is a high-level overseas talent introduced by Shenzhen and was selected for the list of the top 2% of scientists in the world in 2022. He has long been committed to interdisciplinary research in materials science, and civil and environmental engineering. His main research directions include CO2 curing technology of cement concrete materials, high-value resource recycling of industrial solid waste, and performance optimization and design of low-carbon building materials. He has won the third prize of the GE Foundation Asia Pacific Technology Innovation Competition (GE Foundation TECH Award), the bronze prize of the Hong Kong Green Innovation Competition, the second prize of the Hong Kong Construction Industry Council Innovation Award (CIC Award), and the Outstanding Paper Award of the 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Building Materials Technology (Kyoto, Japan). He is also a member of the Recycled Concrete Professional Committee of the China Civil Engineering Society and the International Institute of Structural Concrete (FIB).