Prof. Dr. Dehua Liu is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University. He is also the Director of the Institute of Applied Chemistry at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University and the China-Brazil Center for Climate Change and Energy Technology Innovation at Tsinghua University. He received his BS in Applied Chemistry (1986) and PhD in Chemical Engineering (1991) from Tsinghua University. From 1991 to 1993, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute of Chemical Metallurgy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (now renamed Institute of Process Engineering). From 1994 to 1995, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Renewable Resources Engineering Laboratory of Purdue University, USA. He has won the title of Advanced Worker of Tsinghua University (2002 and 2010), the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association (2006), and the National Outstanding Science and Technology Worker of Chemical Industry (2010). His main research areas include renewable resource utilization, bioenergy engineering, fermentation engineering and technology, bioreactors, etc.