Shengtao Ma received his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Central South University in 2007 and subsequently completed his master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral training in Environmental Science at the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2016 to 2021, he worked with Professor Taicheng An’s research group at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology. In 2022, he joined the School of Public Health at Guangzhou Medical University and was appointed as a Distinguished Professor under the Nanshan Scholars Program. His research focuses on environmental exposure assessment, exposomics, high-resolution mass spectrometry-based multi-omics, human biomonitoring, and the identification of early-warning biomarkers linking environmental exposures with adverse health outcomes, particularly lung adenocarcinoma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.