Hongxing Dai is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemistry at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2001. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Supervisors: Profs. A.T. Bell and E. Iglesia). He was the Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology from 2014-2022. He works on heterogeneous catalysis, photocatalysis, and nanoporous materials synthesis. Up to now, he has published over 400 articles in internationally renowned journals and two book chapters. He has given many keynote and invited lectures at various academic conferences. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of several international journals, an editorial board member of over 20 international journals, and a reviewer of over 140 international journals.