Liang-Nian received his Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry from Nankai University in 1996. He was an oversea student returning program in 2004, having received an AIST fellowship 2002–2003 and NEDO fellowship (Japan) 1999–2002. He worked as a full professor at the Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University (from 2003) and FRSC (from 2011). More than 300 papers with an h-index of 66 were published in peer-reviewed journals, and 32 patents were granted. He has edited 20 books and chapters and delivered over 80 invited lectures at international conferences and universities. His research topics mainly include: green chemistry, renewable carbon energy chemistry, and CO2 chemistry, including CO2 activation and catalytic conversion into fuels/value-added chemicals, catalysis in green solvents, biomass conversion, and green technology related to desulfurization. He’s proposed novel concepts and strategies for CO2 chemistry, e.g., in situ transformation of CO2, namely, integrating CO2 capture and subsequent conversion in a carbon-neutral cycle, and developed reductive functionalization of CO2 and green technology related to desulfurization as well as renewable energy-driven CO2 valorization in a sustainable way. On the other hand, he is also dedicated to designing effective materials for CO2 capture and conversion based on mechanistic investigations. Furthermore, several CO2 conversion technologies developed in his group are being applied to industrial applications.