Hong Miao graduated from Northeast Normal University with a bachelor's degree in 2007. From 2007 to 2013, she studied for her master's degree at the State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and received her Ph.D. degree in 2013. From 2013 to 2016, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, USA. In 2017, she joined the State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a research fellow.

Her research fields include polymer chemistry, organometallic chemistry, green chemistry, and the research of catalytic synthesis of sustainable polymer materials. She has published more than 40 papers in high-level international academic journals such asChemical Reviews,Nature Chemistry,J. Am. Chem. Soc., andAngew. Chem. Int. Ed.,and been granted 2 US patents and 2 Chinese patents. Many of her research findings have been highlighted in media and magazines, including one that won the 2015 US Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. In 2019, she was included in the Shanghai Rising-Star Program and won the Polymer Young Scholar Award of the Chinese Chemical Society.