Prof. Baoxia Mi is the Wood Calvert Chair of Engineering and an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She received BS and MS from Tianjin University in China, Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a postdoctoral training at Yale University. She directs the research and educational activities of the Membrane Innovation Lab, studying physicochemical and biological processes with emphasis on advanced membrane processes and nanotechnology. Dr. Mi’s achievements include an NSF CAREER Award, Hellman Fellows Award, CAPEES/Nanova Young Investigator Award, and Bakar Spark Prize.