Professor Qixing Zhou is now the director of the academic commission, the former dean (2005.12-2017.06), College of Environment Science and Engineering; the director, the Researching Centre of Environment, Ecology, and Natural Resources; and also a member of the academic commission, Nankai University, China.His research covers the following fields: ecological geochemistry, environmental remediation and ecological regulation, ecotoxicology and environmental standards, and soil/land environmental engineering. At least 600 refereed papers have been published in academic journals such as NATURE CATALYSIS, CHEMICAL REVIEWS, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (PNAS), and ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. In addition, 15 monographic books have been also published, more than 50 invention patents were authorized, and invited plenary lectures and keynote speaks are up to 100 times at both national and international academic conferences.In the year of 1998, he became a candidate of the one hundred talents program by Chinese Academy of Sciences; in the year of 2002, he got a fund from the National Natural Science Foundation of China for distinguished young scholars; in the year of 2004, he was approved as a distinguished professor of Yangtze River Scholars by the Ministry of Education, People’s Republic of China. He successively won more than 10 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, including the first prize of natural science by the Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China, and the first prize of technological invention by the Tianjin Municipal Government, China, and the China's Youth Science and Technology Award.