Pan Aifang,  a native of Yexian County, Henan Province, is a professor and doctoral/master's supervisor at Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology (XAUAT). She earned her B.Eng. in Geological Survey and Prospecting from Changchun College of Geology in 1986 and her Ph.D. in Geochemistry from Northwest University in 2005. She currently serves as the Dean of the Institute of Full-Volume Resource Utilization of Solid Waste at XAUAT's Cross-Innovation Research Institute and holds an adjunct appointment as a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Acad...