Hongdeng Qiu received a B.S. degree from Nanchang University in 2003 and Ph. D. from Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (belong to Chinese Academic of Science) in 2008. After that, he became an assistant professor in the same institute. In 2009, he moved to Kumamoto University in Japan as a research associate of G-COE program. In the same year, he got the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers. Since 2012, he came back to Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics as a full professor supporting by “Hundred Talents Program” from Chinese Academy of Science. His research interests are new chromatographic materials, especially ionic liquids for chemical separation and materials synthesis. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers, 4 patents and 2 chapters.