Hao Song is a professor in biochemical engineering at the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, China. He received Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2004 from the University of Houston. After working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Texas Health Science Center, and a research associate at Duke University, he joined Nanyang Technological University at Singapore as an assistant professor. He joined Tianjin University as a professor in 2013, now being the Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, and the Vice Director of the Frontier Science Center of Synthetic Biology (MOE). His research interests are synthetic biology and metabolic engineering, in particular, microbial electrocatalysis (microbial fuel cells and microbial electrosynthesis etc.), microbial ecosystems, and gene circuit design, with applications in energy and environments, and drugs biosynthesis. He has published over 80 papers, including Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Communications, Energy & Environmental Science, Angew Chemie, and Chemical Society Reviews, etc.