Shilei Wang has been an assistant researcher at the School
of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University since 2021. From 2016 to 2021, he
was a doctoral candidate in fermentation engineering at Jiangnan University. He
presided over the Henan Province Science and Technology Research Project from
2023 to 2024, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation General Funding Project
from 2022 to 2024, and the Jiangsu Province Graduate Training Innovation
Project from 2018 to 2019. He participated in Nanyang City’s major collaborative
innovation projects from 2021 to 2024 and participated in key research and
development projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology from 2018 to
2020. His main research directions include biochemical engineering,
fermentation engineering, microbiomics, and microbial metabolomics.
Jingliang Xu received his Ph.D degree in Microbiology in
2006 from Nanjing Agricultural University (Nanjing, China). He once worked at
the Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and
is now working in the College of Chemical Engineering and Energy, Zhengzhou
University. His research works are related to biorefinery with lignocellulosic
biomass. He is the principal investigator of more than 20 scientific research
projects. He has published over 100 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals
and has been issued 22 Chinese patents, 1 USA patent, and 1 Australian patent.
He also published 2 monographs as chief editor.
His research fields include biorefinery with lignocellulosic biomass,
cellulase immobilization and hydrolysis reactor design, cellulose simultaneous
saccharification and fermentation (SSF) technology; cellulase high-producing
microorganism screening and preparation; long-chain alcohol biosynthesis with
engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum; bioethanol production from biomass
syngas; bioethanol production from microalgae with industrial waste gas;
itaconic acid/succinic acid biosynthesis/production; rare sugar biocatalysis
and biotransformation.
Yafan Cai is a directly employed researcher at the Biology
and Joint Research Center of the School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou
University. He is a master’s tutor at Zhengzhou University. He obtained a
doctorate in biomass engineering from the College of Agricultural Sciences and
Biotechnology of China Agricultural University in 2019 and completed the
postdoctoral course in the Biotransformation Department of the German Biomass
Engineering Center (DBFZ) from 2019 to 2021. He is a reviewer for academic
journals, such as Water Research, Bioresource Technology, Waste
Management, etc., and is also a Guest Editor for Energies. He
recently chaired the project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation
of China (2023–2025) on the “bioaugmentation of mutually beneficial complex
bacteria and the mechanism analysis of ammonia inhibition relief based on ‘ammonia
inhibition steady state’”, Maotai-flavor liquor wastewater treatment process
development project (2023–2025), Beijing Technology and Business University Key
Laboratory Open Project about Liquor wastewater treatment process development
project based on simultaneous denitrification (January 2023–December 2023). His
research directions include organic waste resource utilization (bio-fermented
protein feed direction), organic waste energy utilization (bio-natural gas
engineering direction), and organic waste fertilization (bio-organic
fertilizer direction).
Hanjie Ying is an academician at the Department of Chemical,
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Chinese Academy of Engineering. He
received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from the Department of
Applied Chemistry of Nanjing Institute of Chemical Technology in 1991 and 1993,
respectively. He was an associate professor/professor at Nanjing University
of Chemical Technology from 1993 to 2002. He received his PhD from the
Department of Bioengineering, Nanjing University of Chemical Technology in
1998. He won the second prize of the National Technology Invention Award in
2015, the first prize of the Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Progress
Award in 2014, the first prize of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry
Federation Technology Invention Award in 2010, the National Technology
Invention Award in 2007, and the second prize of the China Petroleum and
Chemical Industry Federation’s Technology Invention Award in 2006. He has made
significant contributions to the transformation of biomanufacturing processes
from batch to continuous.
