Changhai Liang is a Professor in the School of Petroleum and Chemical Engineering at Dalian University of Technology, China. He earned his PhD in physical chemistry from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000. He successively became an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in 2001 and 2003, respectively. He then spent about 3 years at the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany, and ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, as the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow and postdoctoral fellow. His laboratory is dedicated to the controlled synthesis of new catalytic materials and catalytic reaction kinetics for energy conversion, environmental protection, and fine chemicals synthesis.