Chunfei Wu (CW) is a Senior Lecturer and Chemical Engineering Programme Lead at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. He has worked in the areas of converting renewable and waste resources to energy, fuel, and chemicals through catalytic thermo-chemical routes for more than 15 years. He is the PI of a EU RISE international exchange programme in relation to biomass gasification and carbon capture and utilisation (Ref; EU823745, €864,400) (2019-2022), and the PI of EU PIRSES (€352,800) in 2017 related to carbon capture. Dr Wu has been involved in several EPSRC and other EU projects (e.g. Co-I in EP/R000670/1 using microwave for bio-oil upgrading; EU H2020-MSCA-RISE-2014 (643322) related to co-processing biomass and plastic wastes. He has published 130 peer reviewed journal papers with >4300 citations (H index of 41, Google Scholar) in the areas of catalytic thermo-chemical conversion of wastes, and he is a Charted Scientist and a Member of Royal Society of Chemistry. Dr Wu is also a Subject Editor of Process Safety and Environmental Protection in the theme of solid waste management.