Rafael Luque is Deputy Head of Department from Departamento de Quimica Organica at Universidad de Cordoba, Spain and Head of the Nanoscale Chemistry & Biomass/Waste Valorization group, an internationally consolidated group with current total funding of ca. 3 million. Prof. Luque is a 2018 and 2019 Highly Cited Researcher, ranked within the top 30 scientists from all disciplines in Spain. He is Director of the Center for Molecular Design and Synthesis of Innovative Compounds for Medicine at RUDN University in Moscow, Russia, Chair Professor in Green Chemistry at Xi´an Jiaotong University, China and DFSP Distinguished Scientist at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He has received a long list of awards from around the world including the Marie Curie Prize, the Green Talents award, the top 10 young entrepreneurs in Spain award, the RSC Environment, Sustainability and Energy Early Career Award, the Lu Jiaxi lectureship from Xiamen University, China and the ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship award. Prof James Clark is a founding director of the world-leading Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence at the University of York, UK.