Professor Lei Yang graduated from the Department of Environmental Engineering of National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan in 1981, received a master's degree in environmental engineering from the School of Civil Engineering at Auburn University in the United States in 1986, and received a doctoral degree on environmental and ecological engineering from the School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University in the United States in 1990. He currently serves as a full-time professor in the Department of Marine Environment and Engineering at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan and has been concurrently the director of the Center for Water Resources Studies since 2004. Professor Yang currently also serves as the honorary chairman of the Taiwan Ocean Pollution Control Association, the executive director of the Taiwan Wetland Society, and the director of the Wetland Taiwan. Professor Yang served as the head of the Department of Marine Environment and Engineering at National Sun Yat-sen University from 2010 to 2013, and meanwhile as the director of the EU Center of the University’s International Affairs Office. Professor Yang’s expertise and research direction are mainly in environmental and ecological engineering, including wastewater biological treatment technology, constructed wetland wastewater treatment ecological engineering technology, wetland ecosystem restoration technology, and blue carbon sink for saline type of constructed wetlands. Professor Yang is one of the few experts in Taiwan continues to engage in constructed wetland ecological engineering technology for both research and practical work. He is also actively involved in the protection, conservation and restoration of natural wetlands in Taiwan, as well as wetland environmental education and other fields, and has made many contributions.