Bin Li is currently a full-time professor in Anhui Agricultural University. He obtained his bachelor's degree in thermal energy and power engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST, China) in 2006 and a PhD degree in thermal energy engineering from HUST in 2012. Afterwards, he completed about 2 years of post-doc research in State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion (SKLCC) in HUST. Then, he moved to Curtin University (Australia) and worked as a visiting research scholar and post-doc for nearly 4 years. In July 2018, he joined Jiangsu University (China) as a full time professor. In September 2023, he moved to Anhui Agricultural University. His main research interest is to efficiently convert biomass wastes to value-added energy, carbon-based materials, and chemicals via thermochemical routes. He has profound experience in fundamental research, technology development, scaling up, and commercialization. He has been awarded as Distinguished Professor in Jiangsu Province (2020) and Distinguished Professor in Anhui Province (2024) due to his excellence in research.