Dr Xinshu Zhuang is a Professor at the Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has been selected for a special core position at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is the vice secretary general of the Biomass Energy Committee of China Renewable Energy Society and the International Director of the Forest Plant Bio-products Division of AIChE. She has been engaged in biomass energy and biorefinery for more than 20 years and has led 20 projects including one International Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Program of the State Key Research and Development Program. She has published more than 160 peer review papers with 73 accepted by SCI journals and 63 by EI journals, been granted over 60 patents and participated in the edition of 12 books. She is an editorial member of Cellulose and Chemical Engineering of Biomass Energy, and a guest editor for Fuel and the Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy.