Zhiwen Qi is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai (ECUST), where he received his B.Sc. in 1991 and Ph.D. in 1999. After his research work at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Germany (1999-2005) and the University of Waterloo in Canada (2005-2008), he became a full professor at the School of Chemical Engineering at ECUST. Currently, he is leading the Max Planck Partner Group on Process Intensification at ECUST, which is sponsored by the Max Planck Society. His research interests focus on process intensification and sustainable processes, mainly on the development of innovative solvent-intensified reaction and separation processes, computer- and machine learning-aided process media design, and the modeling and simulation of complex systems. He has published more than 190 peer-reviewed papers and been listed as a co-inventor on 24 patents.