Sustainable Energy & Fuels editorial board members

Garry Rumbles, Editor-in-Chief

National Renewable Energy Laboratory and University of Colorado Boulder, USA

ORCiD: 0000-0003-0776-1462

Garry Rumbles is a Senior Research Fellow in the Chemistry and Nanoscience Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and an adjoint Professor of Chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder. More widely, he is the Associate Director for Research in the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), a joint energy institute between NREL and the University, and holds a visiting Professorial Chair at Imperial College, London. Garry is a photochemist and physical chemist whose research focusses on the harvesting of solar energy for the production of electricity, fuels and chemicals in molecular and polymeric systems.

Ryu Abe, Associate Editor

Kyoto University, Japan

ORCiD: 0000-0001-8592-076X 

Ryu Abe received his BS (1996), MS (1998) and PhD (2001) degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow (2001-2002) and as a researcher (2002-2005) at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan.  In 2005, his academic career as an Associate Professor began at the Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan. He was then promoted to a Professor at Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan in 2012. His research focuses on the development of highly efficient photocatalysts and photoelectrons that can split water into hydrogen and oxygen under solar light and also on developing new photocatalysts for environmental purification or fine chemical synthesis.

Francesca Brunetti, Associate Editor

University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

ORCiD: 0000-0003-2287-4545

Professor Francesca Brunetti received her PhD in Telecommunications and Microelectronics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2005. In 2005, she was awarded of a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship spent in the Institute for Nanoelectronics of the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Cofounder of the Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy and Associate Professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata her current research is focused on the analysis, design and manufacture of electronic and optoelectronic devices through the use of nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes and graphene), organic semiconductors and perovskites realized on rigid and flexible substrates, including paper. Recently, she started a research activity on printed supercapacitors.

David Mitlin, Associate Editor

The University of Texas at Austin, USA

ORCiD: 0000-0002-7556-3575

David Mitlin is a David Allen Cockrell Endowed Professor at the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to that, he was a Professor and General Electric Chair at Clarkson University, and an Assistant, Associate and full Professor at the University of Alberta. Dr. Mitlin has published about 150 peer-reviewed journal articles on various aspects of energy storage and conversion materials. This work is cited at near 2,000 times per year.

Dr. Mitlin holds five granted U.S. patents and nine more pending full applications, with all of them licensed currently or in the past. He has presented 125 invited, keynote and plenary talks at various international conferences. He is an Associate Editor for Sustainable Energy and Fuels, a Royal Society of Chemistry Journal focused on renewables. Dave received a Doctorate in Materials Science from U.C. Berkeley in 2000, M.S. from Penn State in 1996, and B.S. from RPI in 1995. He grew up in upstate NY and southern CT.

Marta Sevilla, Associate Editor

Instituto Nacional del Carbón - CSIC, Spain

ORCiD: 0000-0002-2471-2403

I am Tenured Scientist in the National Institute of Coal (INCAR), which belongs to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). I acquired my PhD degree from the University of Oviedo/INCAR in 2008 working on the development of novel carbon materials for energy storage (supercapacitors) and energy production (electrocatalysts for the anode of fuel cells). Afterwards, I did postdoctoral stays in the University of Nottingham (with Prof. Robert Mokaya, 2009-2011), Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (with Prof. Maria-Magdalena Titirici, 2011), and Georgia Institute of Technology (with Prof. Gleb Yushin, 2013). My research interests focus on the development of advanced porous carbon materials and carbon-based materials through sustainable processes for their utilization in gas storage (H2 storage and CO2 capture), and energy storage (supercapacitors and Li-ion batteries) and production (fuel cells).

Carsten Streb, Associate Editor

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

ORCID: 0000-0002-5846-1905

Carsten Streb is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Ulm University and Group Leader at Helmholtz Institute Ulm as well as management board member of the Collaborative Research Center TRR 234 CataLight. He received his undergraduate degree from TU Kaiserslautern, undertook a PhD at the University of Glasgow before starting his independent career at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuernberg. Carsten is an inorganic supramolecular chemist with a broad interest in materials design for energy conversion and storage. His research is focused on developing chemical solutions to urgent global challenges. In this context, his group designs technologically relevant materials for solar energy conversion, (photo-)electrocatalysis and battery materials.

Xinchen Wang, Associate Editor

Fuzhou University, China

ORCiD: 0000-0002-2490-3568

Professor Xinchen Wang obtained his BSc and MSc at Fuzhou University and acquired his PhD at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He began his Professorship at Fuzhou University at 2005 and in 2006 moved to The University of Tokyo as a JSPS Postdoctoral fellow. Professor Wang later attended the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, where he held the role of group leader between 2008 and 2012. He is currently the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment and the Dean of the College of Chemistry at Fuzhou University, China. Professor Wang has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in the fields of catalysis and photocatalysis and has an H-Index score of 79.

Karen Wilson, Associate Editor

Griffith University, Australia

ORCiD: 0000-0003-4873-708X

Karen is currently a Professor of Catalysis at the Centre for Catalysis and Clean Energy at Griffith University in Australia, and previously held professorial positions at RMIT University (2018-23) and Aston University (2013-17). At Aston, she was also the Research Director of the European Bioenergy Research Institute and held a prestigious Royal Society Industry Fellowship in collaboration with Johnson Matthey.

She holds a BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge, and an MSc in heterogeneous catalysis from the University of Liverpool, and has also held academic positions at the University of York and Cardiff University. Karen’s research interests lie in the design of tuneable porous materials for sustainable biofuels and chemical production from renewable resources.

Fuxiang Zhang, Associate Editor

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China

ORCID: 0000-0002-7859-0616

Fuxiang Zhang received his PhD degree from Nankai University, China in 2004, and became a full Professor of physical chemistry at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013. Meanwhile, he worked as a postdoc at Pierre and Marie Curie University and the University of Tokyo. As leader of a research group focused on materials and catalysis for solar hydrogen production and storage at DICP, Fuxiang is now working with his colleagues on solar-to-chemical conversion involving photocatalysis for overall water splitting, electrocatalysis, precise synthesis of materials, in situ characterizations as well as understanding of catalytic reaction mechanisms. His team has assembled a series of powder-suspended systems for visible-light-driven overall water splitting to produce hydrogen with apparent quantum efficiency continuously updated since 2015, and have published ~200 peer-reviewed papers in the field of material science and heterogeneous photo/electrocatalysis.

Fuxiang was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2020 and Millions of Talent Projects National candidate in 2023. 

Wooyul Kim, Editorial Board member

Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH), South Korea

ORCiD: 0000-0002-8130-5441

Wooyul Kim received his PhD from POSTECH in 2012. During his PhD, he also conducted research at Osaka University as a visiting researcher in 2009, 2010, and 2012. Following that, he spent over 3 years (2012-2015) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Fellow.

From 2016 to 2022, he joined the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Sookmyung Women's University as an Assistant and Associate Professor. Since 2022, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Energy Engineering at KENTECH.

Carol Sze Ki Lin, Editorial Board member

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

ORCiD: 0000-0002-8493-4307

Carol is currently a Professor at the School of Energy and Environment at City University of Hong Kong (CityU). She received her Bachelor’s degree in Chemical and Materials Engineering with 1st class honours from The University of Auckland, New Zealand. She was awarded her PhD in 2008 in Chemical Engineering at The University of Manchester, England. After one year as a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University in Belgium, she returned to Hong Kong and joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) as a Visiting Assistant Professor.  In July 2011, she began her academic career in School of Energy and Environment at CityU.

Her research interests lie in technological advancement and development of circular waste-based biorefinery for sustainable production of chemicals, materials and fuels, that contributes to reduction of environmental burden of waste disposal and enhancement of resource efficiency. Her research covers the following areas: (i) Biosynthesis of high value-added products and organic pollutant removal via microalgae-based biorefinery; (ii) Development of Yarrowia lipolytica yeast as a promising host; (iii) Novel bioprocess for recycling textile waste for sustainable production of high value-added products; (iv) Biosurfactants production from industrial food waste feedstocks; (v) Identification of microplastics in municipal solid waste landfill leachates. 

Carol is a recipient of a number of innovation awards, including two Gold Medals in Geneva Invention Exhibition (2018, 2024), Gold Medal with Jury’s Commendation in Geneva Invention Exhibition (2016), and the President’s Awards (2017). She was awarded the Milliporesigma Green Chemistry Education Challenge Awards 2024 by Beyond Benign, Inc. in Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA. She has also been selected for the High-end Foreign Experts Program in Tongji University, Shanghai, China 2023-2024.

Tharamani C. Nagaiah, Editorial Board member

Indian Institute Of Technology Ropar, India

ORCiD: 0000-0003-3545-6668

Thara is currently an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Ropar, India. She holds a PhD degree from Bangalore University and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada and an AvH Postdoctoral Fellowship at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

Her research interests include the design and development of new materials with a focus on energy conversion/storage and biosensing applications, and in-depth fundamental analysis of the newly designed electrocatalysts by various electrochemical, spectroscopic, microscopic, and scanning probe techniques.