Prof. Carsten Sievers is a Professor and Robert L. Seldomridge Faculty Fellow and Pirkle Faculty Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He obtained his Diplom and Dr. rer nat. degrees in Technical Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He worked on heterogeneous catalysts for various petrochemical processes. In 2007, he moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology to work as a postdoctoral fellow. His primary focus was the development of catalytic processes for biomass depolymerization and the synthesis of biofuels. He joined the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009. His research group is developing catalytic processes for the sustainable production of fuels and chemicals. His specific interests are catalyst deactivation and regeneration, mechanocatalysis, plastics upcycling, catalytic processes in the aqueous phase, the surface chemistry of complex molecules, the production of value-added chemicals from biomass, and operando spectroscopy. He is one of the Chairs of the 29th North American Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society (NAM29) and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Applied Catalysis A: General.