Professor Jin Xuan graduated with a PhD degree from The University of Hong Kong in 2012, with the research topic in energy and environment engineering. His academic career in the UK started in 2014, when he took up a Lectureship in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. He was appointed as the Associate Director of the Research Centre for Carbon Solutions (RCCS) at Heriot-Watt in 2017. Professor Xuan moved Loughborough University in 2018 as a Senior Lecturer, was promoted to Professor and awarded a Personal Chair in Low Carbon Processes in 2019 and became Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering in 2020. In September 2022, Professor Jin Xuan joined the University of Surrey taking up his current position as the Associate Dean Research and Innovation for the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. Professor Xuan has won a number of prestigious prizes and awards in recognition of his research excellence. He is the recipient of the Beilby Medal and Prize, jointly from the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) in 2020 for his work that ‘has exceptional practical significance in chemical engineering, applied materials science, energy efficiency or a related field’. Professor Xuan actively takes leadership in the wider research community globally. He is a member of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Committee (SAC) for the cross-council Energy Programme. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Digital Chemical Engineering (IChemE and Elsevier), Editor of Energy and AI (Elsevier), and a Topic Editor of ‘Emerging Technologies for Circular Economy’ for Frontiers in Energy Research. Professor Xuan is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), where he serves as a committee member for its Ethical Principles Committee, as well as a board member of its Process Industries Division. Professor Xuan is an advocate for Responsible Assessment. He was recently interviewed by Nature as part of a news item “China bans cash rewards for publishing papers”, where he provided his expert view on policy development for proper use of journal metrics in research evaluation. He also actively promotes EDI in the wider research community. He is currently editing a special issue of ‘Inclusion and Diversity Approach to Energy and AI’ in the Energy and AI journal, which is the first of its kind special issue of Elsevier journals to tackle EDI challenges in the research and authorship community.