Professor Zhanmin Cao is the Associate Dean of the School of Metallurgical and Ecological Engineering at Beijing University of Science and Technology. He has been teaching at the university since July 2001. From April 2004 to March 2006, he served as a research supporter at Tohoku University in Japan. In addition, he was a visiting scholar at Montreal Polytechnique Institute in Canada from July to September 2007, and from March to August 2013.