**Meet the editor**

Dr. Robert Ning is the vice president of the Science and Business Development of King Lee Technologies based in San Diego, CA, USA. This company was founded in 1977 and specializes in chemistry and chemicals used in reverse osmosis (RO) membrane plants. Since 1995, Dr. Ning is responsible for science and product development, as well as in the establishment of a network of process design for engineers and service providers around the world to design and service RO plant processes.

He has a BS degree in chemistry from the Rochester Institute of Technology, a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois, an MBA from the Fairleigh Dickinson University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology. He has 25 years of process chemistry experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, prior to his current specialization in water and wastewater treatments.
