Chengna Dai was born in Hebei province (China) in 1984 and received her Ph.D. in 2013 from Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) under the supervision of Prof. Zhigang Lei. Thereafter she worked in BUCT to 2018, and then she works in Beijing University of Technology as an Associate Professor. Her current research interest is the reaction and separation science with ionic liquids as well as the corresponding predictive molecular thermodynamics. She has contributed to more than 50 papers in international journals.