Dr. Liang Zhang is an Associate Professor in the School of Environmental Science & Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University. He received his Ph.D. from Aarhus University, Denmark, and subsequently worked as a Research Fellow at Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute (NEWRI) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include sulfur-based wastewater treatment, biological nitrogen removal, acid mine drainage treatment, heavy metal recovery, and anaerobic sludge digestion. He has published over 50 journal articles in leading journals such as Environmental Science & Technology and Water Research. Dr. Zhang received the Extraordinary Potential Prize of the 2018 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad.