Prof. Song Hu is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He is also the director of the China–Europe Clean and Renewable Energy Academy Research Center and vice chairman of the Wuhan Hongshan District Science and Technology Association. In 2002, he received his PhD in Thermal Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. From 2002 to 2004, he conducted postdoctoral research at the State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. In 2013, he was selected into the New Century Talent Program of the Ministry of Education and received funding from the Hubei Outstanding Youth Fund in the same year. He was selected as a person who made positive contributions to the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Europe in 2015 and was selected as an Outstanding Young Scientist in China and Australia in 2017 by the Ministry of Science and Technology. His main research directions are biomass thermal reaction mechanism and new application technology, traditional fossil energy, efficient and clean reaction mechanism and application technology, resource utilization of various renewable energy sources, and high-value conversion of biomass-based carbon materials.