Prof. Qian is David von Hansemann Professor of Science and Chair Professor in Division of Life Science. He received his Ph.D. In Zoology from University of Alberta in 1991 and was a Killiam Postdoctoral Fellow in University of British Columbia before he joined the Department of Biology as an assistant professor in January of 1993. He received a State Natural Science Award of the State Council of China in 2016 for his work on interaction between settling larvae of marine invertebrates and marine biofilm under changing environment.