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Prof. Xianlai ZENG is working on waste recycling and circular economy at Tsinghua University. He was ever invited to act as visiting staff at Coventry University (2012), visiting fellow at Macau University (2012-2013), visiting professor at Macquarie University (2017), and Fulbright fellow at Yale University (2018-2019). He, by the invitation, is the director of Resource Circularity and Environmental Engineering Committee at International Association of Natural Resources. He proposed the emerging concept and framework of anthropogenic circularity science and was recognized as one of the most leading scientists on urban mining and circular economy. Totally, he has authored and co-authored over 150 peer-review articles (including several in Science, Nature Communications, and Science Bulletin) and six monographs. He served as a Lead Author for the circularity chapter of UNEP GEO-7. He has delivered more than 60 invited lectures and seminars at top academic institutions as well as many international conferences and science/policy forums.