Jirong Lan obtained his PhD degree in engineering in resources and environment from Wuhan University (WHU), China, in December 2022 (early graduation based on academic excellence, September 2020–December 2022). He is the certified expert of the non-ferrous metals think tank of The Nonferrous Metals Society of China (July 2023 to now). Jirong Lan was the chair of the National Doctoral Academic Conference Solid Waste Pollution Control and Resources branch and the assistant director of the Ecological and Environmental Damage Assessment Center of China. Jirong Lan was employed by the Department of Ecology and Environment of Hubei Province as a Provincial Instructor for a national pollution source survey. His research interests mainly include high value-added environmental functional materials and bulk solid waste (e.g., MSWIFA, tailings, and sludge) resource treatment. Currently, his research will particularly focus on the civil environment material application of municipal inorganic solid waste and its practical applications.