Dr. Robert Wojcieszak is the senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Lille, France. He obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Chemistry from Henri Poincare University in 2006 and subsequently held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the IMCN at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Then, he was a FAPESP fellow at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is currently the coordinator of the CatBioInnov platform at Centrale Lille, France. His research interests cover materials science and catalytic materials design. Especially he is working on the development of new advanced catalysts for biomass transformation especially for the oxidation and hydrogenation of bio-based compounds and hybrid catalysis.