Professor Dezhen Chen comes from Tongji University. She was selected for the New Century Excellent Talents Programme of the Ministry of Education. She is an associate editor of the <Waste Management> journal and an editorial board member of Environmental Sanitation Engineering and Detritus journals. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAP) of the International Solid Waste Working Group (IWWG), Expert Member of the Special Committee on Village and Town Waste Management of CEA; Think Tank Expert of the Basel Convention Asia-Pacific Regional Centre for Environmental Management of Chemicals and Wastes (BCRC-AP), Co-Chairman of INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ENERGY FROM BIOMASS AND WASTE (Venice) conference, Deputy Director of Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Multi-source Solid Wastes Co-processing and Energy Utilization. Chief editor of 2 wastes pyrolysis standards, she has transferred 9 patent technologies on solid waste pyrolysis to industrial applications, covering solid waste pyrolysis and quality improvement patent pool.