Dr Tanvir Alam is an award-winning early-career scientist working in the field of Energy & Environmental Engineering. He earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Monash University, Australia and was the recipient of several prestigious awards and scholarships including the Postgraduate Publication Award (PPA), Faculty of Engineering International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (FEIPRS), Monash Co-Funded Graduate Scholarship (CF-MGS), Graduate Research Completion Award (GRCA), and Best Oral Presentation Award. Prior to joining Monash, he achieved M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Yonsei University, South Korea with an Outstanding Foreign Student Scholarship and Brain Korea 21 Plus Scholarship. He earned B.Eng. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh with a University Merit Scholarship. His research interests lie in the areas of waste-to-energy, biomass and bioenergy, gasification, combustion, pyrolysis, ash slagging and fouling, resource recycling, waste management and air pollution control. Until now, Dr Alam has authored/co-authored 3 book chapters and 20 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals, which attracted 300+ citations with an h-index of 9 and an i-10 index of 9. Furthermore, he contributed to 24 international conferences and received 3 Best Presentation Awards.