Dr. Albin Pintar, Research Professor, is head of the research programme group "Integrated approach to water pollution prevention" at the National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Ljubljana in 1992 and 1996, respectively. He was a visiting scientist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) and the Research Institute of Catalysis and Environment (Villeurbanne, France). His research interests are in the fields of heterogeneous catalysis, environmental catalysis, kinetics, and mechanisms of catalytic reactions in multiphase reactors, wastewater treatment, the production of hydrogen-rich mixtures from renewables, and process intensification. He is the author of over 190 scientific papers and review articles in peer-reviewed journals, with several international patents (h-index: 49). He received a prestigious national award for significant scientific achievements in chemical engineering. Albin Pintar is the chairman of the Catalysis Division at the Slovenian Chemical Society, and serves as an associate editor of RSC Advances.
