Huang Guoyong, Ph.D., is an Associate Researcher and Master’s Supervisor at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, South China Normal University. He received his Ph.D. in Agronomy from Huazhong Agricultural University in 2018. In 2016, he was awarded a scholarship by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to conduct collaborative research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, where he worked for two years. From 2019 to 2022, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the same institute. His primary research focuses on (1) innovative technologies for remediating heavy metal–contaminated soils, and (2) biogeochemical processes governing element speciation, mobility, and bioavailability at the rhizosphere interface. His scholarly output includes over 30 peer-reviewed publications in high-impact international journals, including *Environmental Science & Technology*, *Environmental Science: Nano*, *Science of the Total Environment*, and *Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety*, with an H-index of 22 (Scopus).