Dr. Albin Pintar, research professor, is head of the research programme group Integrated Approach to Water Pollution Prevention at the National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Ljubljana in 1992 and 1996, respectively, and was a visiting scientist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) and the Research Institute of Catalysis and Environment (Villeurbanne, France). His research interests include heterogeneous catalysis, environmental catalysis, kinetics and mechanisms of catalytic reactions in multiphase reactors, wastewater treatment, and the production of hydrogen-rich mixtures from renewables and process intensification. He is the author of more than 190 scientific papers and review articles in peer-reviewed journals and several international patents (h-index: 52). He received a prestigious national award for significant scientific achievements in chemical engineering. Albin Pintar is chairman of the Catalysis Division of the Slovenian Chemical Society and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Catalysts and Molecules.