Baoqiang Liao is a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada. He completed his MSc. studies in Chemical Engineering at the University of New Brunswick in 1995 and his Ph.D. studies in Chemical Engineering at the University of Toronto in 2000. He has published 137 papers with 8852 citations and an h-index of 50 (Scopus, 21 November 2023). His research topics mainly include membrane bioreactors, membrane separations, membrane fouling, wastewater treatment, particle science and technology, colloidal and surface chemistry, sludge management, anaerobic digestion, environmental nanoparticle technology, and environmental engineering.