Prof. Hongxun Hao currently works as a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University. He is also a member of the Academic Committee of the International Industrial Crystallization Association and the Asian Industrial Crystallization Association, member of the Chemical Process Intensification Committee of the Chemical Industry Society of China, member of the Industrial Water Treatment Committee, and member of the Pharmaceutical Chemical Industry Committee. He graduated from the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology of Tianjin University in 2003 with a Ph.D. in Engineering. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University College London and a Senior Research Fellow at the University College Dublin. His main research directions include industrial crystallization, drug separation and purification, drug crystal morphology optimization and control, functional crystal materials and nanomaterials, high-salt wastewater and solid waste treatment, etc.