Zhigang Lei was born in Hubei province (China) in 1973. He received his B.S. degree in 1995 from Wuhan Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. degree in 2000 from Tsinghua University. Then, he became a postdoctoral researcher in Beijing University of Chemical Technology working with Professor Chengyue Li. In 2003 - 2005, he worked as a researcher in Research Center of Supercritical Fluid Technology (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan). In 2005 - 2006, he got the world-famous Humboldt Fellowship and carried out his research in Chair of Separation Science and Technology (Universitat Erlange-Nurnberg, Erlangen, Germany). In 2006, he came back to China. He is now a Professor in State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering (BUCT, China). His current research interests include chemical process intensification and predictive molecular thermodynamics. He has contributed to about 140 papers in international journals and one book entitled Special Distillation Processes published by Elsevier B.V. (2005). Biaohua Chen was born in Jiangxi province (China) in 1963. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1996 from China University of Petroleum (Beijing). In 2000, he was a visiting scholar at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Washington. He has received two National Science and Technology Progress Prize (second class), and a few provincial or ministerial level prizes. Now he is a member of the Standing Committee of Beijing Chemical Industry Association and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Petrochemical Universities (China). His main research interests are environmental and green chemistry. He has contributed to more than 150 papers in international journals. Zhongwei Ding is the professor of chemical engineering at Beijing University of Chemical technology. He received B.S. degree from Qingdao Institution of Chemical Technology in 1991, and M.S. and Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Chemical Technology in 1994 and 2001, respectively. From 1994 to 1998, he worked as a computer programmer of process simulation software. Since 1999, he has conducted research work on membrane science and technology for twenty years, mainly focusing on membrane distillation, microfiltration, membrane contactors, and gas separation by membrane. He has authored and coauthored over 80 research papers and five books.
