Prof. Dr. Tingzhou Lei is a researcher at the Henan Key Lab of Biomass Energy, Changzhou University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from Dalian University of Technology in 2006. He has been engaged in research and engineering development of biomass energy for 30 years, especially biomass liquid fuels, biomass briquette fuels, biomass co-firing power, biomass gasification, pyrolysis, and combustion. He has chaired more than 40 national and provincial research projects, including the thematic project and plan of the Hi-tech Research and Development Program of China, the National Science and Technology Support Program, the Natural Science Foundation of China, etc. Prof. Lei has received several prizes, including one second prize in China National Science and Technology, two first prizes and four second prizes in Provincial Science and Technology. He has also received two international invention patents and over 60 Chinese national patents. He enjoys the Special Allowance of the State Council, has been listed in the National Millions of Talent Projects, the Outstanding Contributions Young and Middle-aged Experts, the National Outstanding Scientific and Technical Workers, Central Plains Scholars, and the First Outstanding Professional and Technical Talents of Henan Province. The research team of Prof. Lei has won “The First Henan Provincial Innovation Medal”. In 2017, he was nominated by the academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.