Lifang Chen received her B.Sc. from Hubei University in 1998, an M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from Fudan University in 2005, and a Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry from the Colorado School of Mines in 2009. She joined the School of Chemical Engineering at the East China University of Science and Technology (Shanghai, China) in the same year and is currently an Associate Professor. Her research interests include solvent-enhanced multiphase catalytic reaction engineering: structural design and modulation of noble and transition metal catalysts, solvent-enhanced catalytic reaction processes (oxidation,
hydrogenation, C6-related reactions, CO₂ uptake and conversion, etc.), reaction kinetics, and reaction process fitting and optimization.
Zhiwen Qi is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai (ECUST), where he received his B.Sc. in 1991 and Ph.D. in 1999. After his research work at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Germany (1999-2005) and the University of Waterloo in Canada (2005-2008), he became a full professor at the School of Chemical Engineering at ECUST. Currently, he is leading the Max Planck Partner Group on Process Intensification at ECUST, which is sponsored by the Max Planck Society. His research interests focus on process intensification and sustainable processes, mainly on the development of innovative solvent-intensified reaction and separation processes, computer- and machine learning-aided process media design, and the modeling and simulation of complex systems. He has published more than 190 peer-reviewed papers and been listed as a co-inventor on 24 patents.
