Dr. Kuibin Zhou graduated from State Key Laboratory of Fire Safety Science at the University of Science and Technology of China in June 2013. Since then, he has been a permanent staff member at the Nanjing Tech University. He served as a visiting professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute from August 2019 to September 2020 and has been a full professor at Nanjing Tech University since August 2020. His two papers, published as the first author in the journal of Fire Technology, received the Tibor Z. Harmathy Award from Springer Nature in 2016 and 2017.