Dr. Zhijie Chen is a research associate at the Water Research Centre, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW. He received his Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia in 2022. His research mainly focuses on the development of green technology for achieving environmental and energy sustainability. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals (e.g., Prog. Mater. Sci., Adv. Mater., Sci. Bull., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Nano-Micro Lett., Adv. Funct. Mater., Green Chem., Appl. Catal. B, Water Res., Renewable Sustainable Energy Rev., and Nano Energy) and 3 book chapters within the fields of resource utilization, waste valorization, green chemistry, wastewater treatment, and green energy. Over ten of his papers have been listed as ESI Highly Cited Papers/Hot Papers. His work has been featured in global tech media. From 2021 to now, he is ranked #4 in Australia for scholarly output for SciVal topic “Electrocatalysts; Catalyst Activity; Oxygen Evolution”.