Dingding Yao is currently an Associate Professor in College of Engineering at Huazhong Agricultural University. She obtained her PhD in Thermal Engineering from SKLCC at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2018. She also had one year’s study as a Visiting Researcher on an EPSRC-funded project, in Professor Paul T. Williams’ group at University of Leeds. Following completion of PhD, she worked as a Postdoc Research Fellow in a NRF-funded project (E2S2) under Professor Chi-Hwa Wang and Prof Tong Yen Wah at National University of Singapore. In 2021/01, she joined Huazhong Agricultural University as Associate Professor.

She has published more than 20 academic papers in the area of energy and environmental engineering, focusing on thermo-chemical conversion of solid waste, including plastic and biomass pyrolysis, gasification and catalysis. She has more than 1000 citations to her work. She has broad collaboration network with many top universities for example, National University of Singapore, University of Leeds, Queen's University Belfast, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. In addition, Dingding acts as reviewer for many journals such as Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal of Cleaner Production、Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, etc.

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