Qiu Rongliang, native of Xinghua, Jiangsu Province, was born  in 1967. He took his first job

 in July 1992. He is now Professor, PhD  supervisor and Vice President at South China Agricultural University.

Qiu graduated from Nanjing Agricultural University with a PhD  degree in Soil Chemistry in 1992. From 1992 to 1999, he worked from lecturer to  associate professor at the Department of Environmental Science, Sun Yat-sen  University. He was promoted to be Professor and PhD supervisor in 2001. Before  that, from 1999 to 2000, he was a visiting professor at University of  Maryland, USA and from March to August 2000, he worked  in Environmental Chemistry Lab,USDA-ARS as a visiting scientist.  In October 2008, he was appointed Associate Dean in Graduate School, Sun  Yat-sen University and from May 2012 to December 2019, he became Dean  of School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen  University.

Qiu's research focuses on plant-chemistry-microbe remediation of heavy metal  contaminated soil, Chemical remediation and bioremediation of organic pollution  in soil and water environment. He presides over 60 national  and ministerial research projects and publishes over 330 papers including  over 180 indexed by SCI. He is also entitled to 28 national  patents.  He was selected into the"Thousand-Hundred-Ten  Talent Project" of Guangdong Province and winner of Pearl River Scholar Program. He also enjoys the Special Allowance of the State Council.

He was at the same time Standing Member of Heavy Metal Pollution and Control Council, Environmental Science Society of China; Guest Professor at Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, France; part-time  Professor at Nanjing University; Standing Member, Soil Chemistry and Biochemistry Committee of Soil Science Society of  China, and Standing Member, Environmental and Chemical Geography Committee, Geographical Society of China, and member of the Expert  Advisory Committee on Soil Ecological Environmental Protection of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of PRC. He is currently serving as an editorial board member of more than ten academic journals, including Journal of Environmental Science,Journal of Ecology and Environment, Journal of Soils and Sediments, Journal of Environmental Engineering, Journal of Agricultural Environmental Science, and Journal of Applied Ecology.

He is responsible for scientific and research affairs, commercialization of research outcomes, etc..