Bingcai PAN is Dean of the Department of Environmental Engineering, Nanjing University, Deputy Director of the State key Laboratory of pollution Control and Resource Utilization as well as the Chairman of International Water Association China Young Water Professionals National committee. He is the winner of National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and Distinguished Professor of Chang Jiang Scholars. He has acquired National Technological Invention Award (2nd Class) in 2015 and Georgy Barley Water Prize (Pilot-stage), First Runner-up in 2018. His research interests mainly focus on wastewater treatment and resource reuse, nano-enabled water treatment, and advanced oxidation processes.