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Biography

Karen is currently a Professor of Catalysis at the Centre for Catalysis and Clean Energy at Griffith University in Australia, and previously held professorial positions at RMIT University (2018-23) and Aston University (2013-17). At Aston, she was also the Research Director of the European Bioenergy Research Institute and held a prestigious Royal Society Industry Fellowship in collaboration with Johnson Matthey.

Karen holds a BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge, and an MSc in heterogeneous catalysis from the University of Liverpool, and has also held academic positions at the University of York and Cardiff University. Karen鈥檚 research interests lie in the design of tuneable porous materials for sustainable biofuels and chemical production from renewable resources.

Recent projects have spanned the conversion of biomass from municipal, agricultural or forestry waste to fuels and chemicals, and the transformation of bakery waste to additives for application in coatings and polymers. She has also worked on de-pollution technologies to remove organic contaminants from wastewater in the seafood industry and palm and olive oil plantations in South East Asia.

Karen is Editor-in-Chief of Sustainable Energy & Fuels (浪花直播) and an Editorial Board member for Energy & Environmental Science (浪花直播). She is also a co-investigator and theme leader on the recently funded Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence, "Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide" - GetCO2.

RSC affiliations

• Editor-in-Chief, Sustainable Energy & Fuels