Dr. Hong-zhen Lian obtained his BSc and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry both from Nanjing University, China, and worked at Health Canada, Ottawa as a postdoctoral fellow. Currently, Dr. Lian is a professor at the School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, and the vice-director of the Center of Materials Analysis, at Nanjing University. His research interests concern chromatographic separation & analysis, pretreatment of complex samples, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), and biomedical mass spectrometry. He has published more than 240 scientific publications and is a named inventor of 8 issued Chinese patents. Dr. Lian is also the Associate Editor of Current Analytical Chemistry, Review Editor of Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry, Editorial Advisory Board Member of Advances in Sample Preparation and Chinese Journal of Chromatography, Member of Chromatography Discipline of Chinese Chemical Society, Standing Council Member of the Chinese Chromatographic Society, Standing Council Member of Chinese Mass Spectrometry Society, and Member of Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission.