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We are delighted to present the resulting collection of articles which cover a breadth of topics and provide a valuable insight into the future of green chemistry; we hope you enjoy reading it.  Anna Simpson and Katie Lim                Katalin Barta studied chemistry at ELTE Budapest, Hungary and carried out master’s research in alternative solvents in the group of István T. Horváth. Her PhD with Walter Leitner at RWTH-Aachen focused on asymmetric catalysis and ligand design. During post-doctoral research (2008–2010) with Prof. Peter Ford at UCSB she worked on the conversion of renewable resources with homogeneous and heterogeneous cata-lysts. Afterwards, she was an Associate Research Scientist (2010–2012) at the Yale University Center for Green Chemistry and Engineering (New Haven, USA) with Prof. P. T. Anastas where she worked on catalytic conversion of renew-  able resources, with special focus on lignin valorization. Since 2013, she has been a tenure track Assistant Professor at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, of the University of Groningen.                  Gregg T. Beckham received his PhD in Chemical Engineering at MIT. He cur-rently leads and works with an interdis-ciplinary team of biologists, chemists, and engineers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on conversion of biomass to fuels, chemicals, and materials including in metabolic engin-eering, fermentation, separations, cataly-sis, biopolymer and carbon fiber pro-duction, and lignin valorization.                                                      Duncan L. Browne received his MChem with study in Industry degree from the University of Sheffield in 2006, and com-pleted his PhD under the guidance of Prof. Joseph P. A. Harrity prior to conduct-ing a 1 year EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship position. In 2010 he moved to the laboratories of Prof. Steven V. Ley, FRS CBE at the University of Cambridge as a postdoctoral research associate and was then appointed Fellow of Natural Sciences at Sidney Sussex College. In 2014 he started his independent research career at Cardiff  University where he is exploring the incorporation of sustainable chemical technologies into organic synthesis.                  Justin M. Chalker earned a BS in Chemistry and a BA in the History and Philosophy of Science at The University of Pittsburgh in 2006. At Pittsburgh, he con-tributed to the total synthesis of several natural products under the direction of Theodore Cohen. Supported by a Rhodes Scholarship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Justin then completed his DPhil at the  University of Oxford under the supervision of Benjamin Davis where he developed several tools for the site-selective modifi-cation of proteins. In 2012, Justin started his independent career as an assistant pro-fessor at The University of Tulsa where he established a diverse research program in organic chemistry, biochemistry and material science. In these projects, contri-butions to sustainability, environmental protection and human wellbeing are pri-ority. In 2015, Justin moved to Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia where he is a Lecturer in Synthetic Chemistry and recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. In 2016, Justin was named Tall Poppy of the Year for South Australia in recognition of his achievements in research, teaching and science communication.                  Mara G. Freire received her PhD degree in 2007 in Chemical Engineering from University of Aveiro, followed by post-doc-toral research activities at ITQB2, New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Currently, she is a Coordinator Researcher at the Chemistry Department of University of Aveiro, the Coordinator of Group 5 within CICECO, Biomedic and Biomimetic Materials, and a member of the Young Scientists Seminar of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. In addition to other projects and awards, in 2014 Freire was awarded with a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant. Her main research inter-ests comprise the development of more sustainable and integrated separation, concentration and purification platforms for value-added compounds.                 Tomislav Friščić is an Associate Professor at McGill University. He received his BSc in 2002 from the University of Zagreb (Croatia) with  B. Kaitner, PhD in 2006 with L. R. MacGillivray at the University of Iowa (USA), and did post-doctoral studies with W. Jones at the Pfizer Institute for Pharmaceutical Materials Science, University of Cambridge (UK). His principal interests are in the under-standing of solid-state reactivity and its applications for innovative, sustainable chemical synthesis. He received several awards, most recently the 2017 NSERC E. W. R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship and the 2016 McGill University Principal’s Award for Outstanding Emerging Investigators.                    Leanne M. Gilbertson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh with a secondary appointment in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. Her research group aims to inform sus-                             tainable design of emerging materials and products using empirical and life cycle assessment approaches. Dr Gilbertson completed her postdoctoral training in the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale University, where she also received her Master’s and PhD degrees in chemical and environ-mental engineering. Dr Gilbertson’s bachelor’s degree is in chemistry and edu-cation from Hamilton College.                   Ceri Hammond is a Royal Society University Research Fellow (RS URF), and heads the Catalysis Engineering research group at the Cardiff  Catalysis Institute (CCI). Ceri obtained his PhD under the guidance of Prof. Graham J. Hutchings FRS at the CCI, for which he was awarded the biennial “Best European PhD Thesis Award” of EFCATS. Following periods at ETH Zürich ( post-doctoral research fellow with Prof. Ive Hermans, 2011–2014) and Stanford University (RSC Mobility Fellow with Prof. Edward I. Solomon, 2014–2015), he returned to the CCI as RS URF. His fel-lowship is partially supported by Stanford University, where he continues to spend several months each year. His research groups sits on the chemistry/ chemical engineering interface, and specializes in the development of hetero-geneous catalytic processes through a combination of kinetic studies (transi-ent, steady state), materials design, in situ spectroscopy and reaction engin-eering. To date, he has co-authored >45 publications, holds 2 patents, and has provided >15 invited lectures.                  Audrey Moores is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Green Chemistry at McGill Chemistry, where she started her independent career in 2007. She was for 4 years the co-associate direc-tor of the Center for Green Chemistry and Catalysis, a Quebec-wide research cluster and acts as scientific director on the board of GreenCenter Canada, an Ontario-based tech transfer company. She has also served as an associate editor for the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering since 2016. She received a Science Communication Fellowship for Green Chemistry in 2011 and CNC-IUPAC travel award in 2016. She is a leading expert in the field of catalysis using metal, metal oxide and biomass-based nano-materials, with a special emphasis on sus-tainable processes and the use of earth abundant starting materials.                   Martin Prechtl, FRSC, Humboldtian/AvH and Heisenbergian/DFG, received the NRW-Returnee-Award 2009 (1.25m€) and works at the University of Cologne as Privatdozent. He acts as editor for  Wiley, the Royal Society of Chemistry, DeGruyter and Elsevier. He edited the book “Nanocatalysis in Ionic Liquids”. Among other prizes, he holds the Ernst-Haage-Prize 2014 (MPI CEC) for his work on H2-generation (Nat. Commun., 2014 and a PCT patent). His group develops catalysts for application in (de)hydrogen-ation reactions. Before Cologne he performed research in Wuppertal, Bridgetown, São Paulo, Aachen, Mülheim/Ruhr, Porto Alegre and Berlin. He enjoys outdoor activities, sports, cooking, languages and derivatives like Mirandese, Papiamento, Talian or Bajan.                   Roberto Rinaldi, FRSC, studied Chemistry at the State University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil and received his PhD in 2006. A year later, he joined the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung as a postdoctoral research fellow where he became a Junior Group Leader in 2009. In 2010 he received the prestigious Sofja-Kovalevskaja Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, allowing him to launch his independent research group and develop outstanding research on lignin valorisation. For his contri-bution to advanced concepts for dis-solution and deconstruction of ligno-cellulosic biomass, he was awarded the Willi Keim Prize 2014 given by the Advanced Fluids Subject Division of ProcessNet (an initiative of DECHEMA and VDI-GVC). He was appointed Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London in 2015 and he has since established a                                         research  group.  In  the  Tomorrow’s doctoral fellow. In 2011, he moved with of  Science  and  Technology,  China  in Chemical Technologies Lab, his group the group to RWTH Aachen University 2009, and a PhD degree from University develops research into early-stage cata- where he became group leader in 2012. of  Alberta,  Canada  in  2013.  His lytic conversion of lignin, catalytic hydro- In 2014 he was temporarily appointed current  research  is  centered  on  fuel gen-transfer,   mechanocatalysis   and as   guest   professor   at   Technische cells,  CO2   valorization  and  energy valorisation of cellulose. His research is Universität  Darmstadt.  His  research storage research. supported  by  the  highly  competitive focuses on the catalytic conversion of  European   Research Council   (ERC) biogenic  platform  chemicals  and  the  Consolidator Grant (LIGNINFIRST, development of porous organic frame-  project no. 725762) initiated in 2017. work materials for catalytic and separ-     ation applications.               Ning Yan was born in Sichuan, China. He   received  his  BS  and  PhD  degrees  in   Chemistry from Peking University. After a   stay at EPFL in Switzerland as a Marie Marcus  Rose  graduated  in  chemistry  Curie Fellow, he joined the Department of from Dresden University of Technology Ning Yan is an assistant professor at the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2007, where he also obtained his PhD Van’t  Hoff   Institute  for  Molecular at the National University of Singapore as with  Prof.  Stefan  Kaskel  in  2010. Sciences (HIMS), University of Amsterdam, an  Assistant  Professor.  The  research Thereafter, he joined the group of Prof. The Netherlands. He received a BEng topics  of  his  group  mainly  concern Regina  Palkovits  at  the  Max-Planck- degree   in   Materials   Science   and biomass valorization, such as shell biore- Institut für Kohlenforschung as a post- Engineering from Huazhong University finery, as well as advanced catalysis.                                

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