Liping Hou completed B.S. degrees in Biology in 2000, and an M.A.degrees in Zoology in 2003 from South China Normal University. She completed her Ph.D. in toxicology,with an emphasis in environmental toxicology, in 2011 from South China Normal University. She was first appointed as a lecturer and later served as an associate professors ofenvironmental toxicology in the School of Life Science in Guangzhou University. Her research focuses on the toxic effects, health risk assessment and toxicological mechanism of typical organic pollutants in aquatic environment. She has hosted and participated in many projects about the National Sciences Foundation of China, the NSFC-Guangdong joint fund and the key research and development plan of Guangdong province.She has published over 30 papers in international journals including Environmental Science&Technology, Aquatic Toxicology,Environmental Pollution, Chemosphere, etc.