Yu-Feng Liang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in 2009 and 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Hua-Jian Xu at Hefei University of Technology. Subsequently, he joined Prof. Ning Jiao’s group at Peking University, and obtained his Ph.D degree in 2015. Then he conducted his postdoctoral research at University of Goettingen with Prof. Lutz Ackermann as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2019) and McGill University with Prof. Chao-Jun Li (2019-2020). Since 2020, he has been a Professor in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Shandong University. His research is focused on developing Earth-abundant transition metal catalyzed asymmetric synthesis, heterocyclic synthesis, ring-opening reactions and reductive cross-coupling reactions.