Lei Zhao, Associate Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology. His research involves facing the major strategic decision of national carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and focuses on waste biomass recycling and energy-based biological treatment technology for pollution reduction and carbon reduction synergism. He has successively presided over 11 national and local scientific research projects, such as the National Natural Science Foundation Youth Project, National Key Research and Development Program sub-task, China Postdoctoral Foundation, Heilongjiang Postdoctoral Foundation, University of Queensland Postdoctoral Foundation, etc. He has successively won the "Excellent Doctoral Dissertation" of Harbin Institute of Technology, the Second prize of Science and Technology of Heilongjiang Province (Natural Science), and the Young Scholars Project of University of Queensland, Australia. He has published more than 60 SCI papers with a H factor of 25, including 23 papers as the first/corresponding author, and including 15 TOP journals in the field. He has six national invention patents and one utility model patent, and has been appointed the editor of Biomed Research International, Energies and of special issues of Water.