Prof. Dr. Nan XU is a full professor, Ph.D. advisor and vice dean of the School of Environment and Energy at Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, and the director of the Shenzhen Engineering Research Center for Nanoporous Water Treatment Materials. She is a Member of the Expert Committee on Emerging Contaminant Control of Guangdong Province. She obtained her bachelor's degree from the Department of Environmental Engineering, Institute of Chemical Engineering at Dalian University of Technology in 2000, and her Ph.D. from the Department of Environmental Engineering at Peking University in 2005. Before joining Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School in March 2009, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford University and the Natural Environment Research Council's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK.