Jun Yao obtained his Ph.D. in Power Engineering and Thermal Physics in 2002 at Zhejiang University (China). He worked at National University of Singapore (Singapore) as a research fellow from 2003 to 2006 in chemical engineering. He moved to University of Leeds (UK) and worked as a research fellow from 2006 to 2010 in particle science and technology. He went to Xiamen University (China) in 2011 to start nuclear multiphase engineering and became a full professor in 2014. He moved to China University of Petroleum-Beijing (China) as a professor in 2016 as the chair of Multiphase Flow Laboratory. He published 71 journal articles and more than 100 international conference proceedings papers in the field of Multiphase Flows including measurement technology of multiphase flow, multi-scale modelling of multiphase flow and particle science and technology. As the principle investigator, he carried out more than 10 projects supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Prosperity Strategic Programme Fund of United Kingdom and so on. He became an Associate Editor of the International Journal “Petroleum Science” in 2019. He has been in Editorial Board in the International Journal “Advanced Powder Technology” since 2012 and as a senior reviewer for more than 20 international journals. He was awarded as “APT Outstanding International Contribution Award”(The Society of Powder Technology, Japan 2019), “Excellent Editor for Advanced Powder Technology” (2017), “Young Scientist Award in Particuology” (Chinese Society of Particuology, 2012)”, “New Century Excellent Talent (China, 2010)”, “HPC Quest Silver Award” (Singapore, 2004) and so on. So far he has organized and chaired international conferences more than 30 times and been invited to present in international conferences more than 20 times.