Prof. Dr. Guowang Xu received his Ph.D in Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Jun., 1991. He was the administrative vice-director of Biotechnology Division (2016.4-2023.11), and is director of CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry in DICP. He is also president of Chromatography Committee of Chinese Society of Chemistry, deputy-president of the Tumor Metabolism Committee of Chinese Society of Anticancer and a member of permanent scientific committee of HPLC. Prof. Xu has co-written 5 books and published 540+ peer-reviewed papers in the ‘Web of Science Core Collection’ (WoS) indexed journals including PNAS, Nature Protocols, Nature Commun., Nature Methods, Cell Metab., Advance Science, Hepatology, Cancer Res., Anal. Chem., etc., and holds more than 90 China patents. His main research fields are in the chromatography-mass spectrometry (MS) technique development and the MS-based metabolomics/exposomics applications in disease biomarker discovery, traditional Chinese medicines and food safety.