Professor Franklin Tao, Dept of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Kansas. Professor Tao graduated from Princeton University and carried out his postdoctoral research at University of California-Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has published about 190 research articles and is an elected fellow of AAAS (2017) and RSC (2014). He was on the advisory editorial boards or editorial boards of several journals, including Chemical Society Reviews and Catalysis Science & Technology.