Dr Xiaoguang Duan is currently an Associate Professor (Reader) and ARC Future Fellow (2024-28), and he also serves as the Deputy Head of Research and Discipline Lead (Chemical Engineering) in the School of Chemical Engineering. His research areas focus on environmental science, green catalysis, functional materials, advanced water purification technologies, and computational science. Dr Duan has published over 300 peer-reviewed research papers including 80 ESI Highly Cited Papers (1%) on Nature Water, Chemical Review, Chemical Society Review, Accounts of Chemical Research, Advanced Materials, Angew Chem Int Ed, PNAS, Matter, Nature Communications, ACS Catalysis, Environmental Science & Technology, Water Research etc. His publications received >37,000 citations with h-index of 102 (web of science) and >40,000 and h-index of 109 (Google Scholar). Xiaoguang serves as the Editor/AE of Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Elsevier), Cleaner Chemical Engineering (Elsevier), and Biochar (Springer). He is also an editorial and EC board member of Applied Catalysis B., Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ACS ES&T Engineering, Next Sustainability, Chinese Chemical Letters, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Materials Today Energy etc.