Dr. Nie Zuoren, CPC member and academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, is currently Deputy Party Secretary of the CPC Beijing University of Technology Committee and President of Beijing University of Technology. He is also Vice Director of the Faculty of Materials Science of the Science & Technology Commission of the Ministry of Education, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Materials Research Society, and Chairman of Beijing Intellectual Property Strategic Advisory Committee. As a leading expert in the fields of refractory metal powder metallurgy and aluminium alloy, he is mainly engaged in the teaching and scientific research of nonferrous metal metallurgy materials and processing. He graduated from the Central South University (the former Central South University of Technology) in 1997 with a doctoral degree, and was elected academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017.