Dr. Zhenguang Yan is a research professor of ecotoxicology and water quality criteria at the State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment of the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Tsinghua University in 2008. He is the academic leader for the study of aquatic life criteria in the Key Laboratory. Dr. Yan serves as the committeeman for the National Committee of Environmental Criteria, and the Committee of Environmental and Ecological Toxicity. In 2003, he received the Excellent Young Teacher Awards of Qingdao, Shandong Province. In 2011, he received the National Excellent Youth Science and Technology Award from the Chinese Society of Toxicology. His research interests encompass ecotoxicology, water quality criteria, and risk assessment. Dr. Yan’s current research activities focus on the development of water quality criteria for priority pollutants and screening of native test organisms. He is in the process of developing national guidelines for water quality criteria and establishing suitable test methods. Dr. Yan has published more than 60 SCI papers in core journals, among them Water Research, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, Biomacromolecules, and Science China.