Dr. Zhiqiang Wu is a professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU). He is also a visiting scholar in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at University of British Columbia (UBC) from 2016 to 2017. He received his Ph. D. (2015) in power engineering and engineering thermophysics, double Bachelor (2009) in engineering and economics from Xi'an Jiaotong University. His work involves the upgrading of low-rank coal, biomass chemical looping conversion and direct air capture. As the first/corresponding author, he has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers in the esteemed SCI journals, and 6 first-author papers are selected as the ESI Highly Cited Papers. Twenty-five patents were authorized. As the Principal Investigator, he got 10 program grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, etc.