Prof. Karen Wilson is Editor in Chief of the Sustainable Energy & Fuels (Royal Society of Chemistry), and Professor of Catalysis and co-director of the Surfaces Materials and Catalysis Group at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. She also holds visiting Professorships at The University of Liverpool, UK, NANOCAT, University of Malaya, and The Hydrogen Energy and Low Carbon Center at Lanzhou University, China. Previously she held professorial positions at RMIT University (2018-23) and Aston University (2013-17), where she was also Research Director of the European Bioenergy Research Institute and held a prestigious Royal Society Industry Fellowship in collaboration with Johnson Matthey. Prior to this Karen also held academic positions at the University of York and Cardiff University, and was awarded her BA(Hons) in Natural Sciences (1992) and PhD (1996) from the University of Cambridge. Karen’s research interests lie in the design the design of tunable porous materials for sustainable biofuels and chemicals production from renewable resources, on which she has published >320 peer-reviewed articles (h-index 89, >28,500 citations Google Scholar). Karen is also Associate Editor of Energy & Environmental Materials (Wiley), Editorial Board member for Energy & Environmental Science (Royal Society of Chemistry) and Australian representative on the IUPAC Interdivisional Committee on Green Chemistry for Sustainable Development (ICGCSD), and holds an International Distinguished Fellowship, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Presidents International Fellowship Initiative, at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics. She was also a founding co-investigator and theme leader the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence, ‘Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide’-GetCO₂.