Biography

Zhen Fang (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7391-372X)

Prof. Zhen Fang (方真教授, 加拿大工程院院士) is leader and founder of biomass group at Nanjing Agricultural University. He is the inventor of “fast hydrolysis” process. He is Editor-in-Chief of Springer Book Series – Biofuels and Biorefineries, Elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE, 2021), Associate Editor of Biotechnol Biofuels (Springer) and Associate Editor of J Supercrit Fluid (Elsevier, 2018-20). He is also editorial (advisory) board members of J Supercrit Fluid, Biofuel Bioprod Bior (Wiley, 2012-18) and Energy Sustain Soc (Springer). Prof. Fang is specializing in thermal/biochemical conversion of biomass, nanocatalysts synthesis and their applications, pretreatment of biomass for biorefineries and supercritical fluid processes. He obtained his PhDs from China Agricultural University (Agricultural Engineering, Beijing) and McGill University (Materials Engineering, Montreal) as well as received further postdoc training in Chemical Engineering in Spain (Marie Curie Fellowship, Universidad de Zaragoza). He is listed in the “Most Cited Chinese Researchers” every year from 2014 to 2021 (Elsevier-Scopus).

He has more than 20-year international research experiences at top universities and institutes around the world, including 1 year in Spain (University of Zaragoza), 3 years in Japan (Biomass Technology Research Center, AIST; Tohoku University), and more than 8 years in Canada (McGill) in renewable energy and green technologies. He has worked for 7 years as a senior engineer in energy, bioresource utilization and engine design in industry before moving to academia. He won the “Governor’s Friendship (Caiyun) Award” in 2012 in Yunnan for his outstanding contributions to the study and utilization of Jatropha biodiesel and bioenergy, 2013 “S&T Progress Award” (the first place) of Xishuangbanna Prefecture for Breeding of New Varieties of Jatropha, and 2017 “Excellent Supervisor Award” of Chinese Academy of Sciences and 2020 “Excellent Teacher Award” of Nanjing Agricultural University for training students. He won 2020 “Springer-Nature China New Development Awards” for significant contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 2022 Overseas Chinese Contribution Award.

Governor Li Jiheng confers the Governor’s Friendship (Caiyun) award to Prof. Zhen FANG.

云南省委副书记、省长李纪恒为方真研究员颁奖(“彩云奖”)

方真教授简介:

方真，男，斯普林格系列丛书《生物燃料和生物炼制》总编辑，可再生能源和绿色技术专家，南京农业大学教授。他在生物质水解、生物柴油生产、生物燃料合成、纳米催化剂、水热技术等领域做出了重要贡献，2021年当选加拿大工程院院士FCAE。

祖籍：浙江慈溪。

出身地： 福建邵武。

教育：福建省 泰宁实验小学毕业、泰宁一中毕业（泰宁县高考状元）、中国农业大学学士、硕士、博士（导师: 曾德超院士）、加拿大麦吉尔大学博士（导师: JA Kozinski院士）、欧共体博士后（居里夫人奖学金）。

方真教授在西班牙（萨拉戈萨大学）、日本（通产省工业技术院、东北大学）、加拿大（麦吉尔大学）工作12年后，于2007年全职回国，先后在中科院（昆明）和南京农业大学工作。

作为Springer系列丛书“生物燃料和生物炼制”总编辑，他负责的编委会，由八位世界著名的生物燃料和生物炼制专家组成（两位美国工程院院士NAE member，四位加拿大工程院院士FCAE，一位加拿大皇家学会院士FRSC和一位日本东北大学著名教授）。

Editorial Board Members:

Professor Jamal Chaouki, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada (FCAE);

Professor Liang-shih Fan, Ohio State University, USA (NAE member);

Professor Charles Q. Jia, University of Toronto, Canada (FCAE);

Professor Yonghao Ni, University of New Brunswick, Canada (FCAE);

Professor Vijaya Raghavan, McGill Univ., Canada (FRSC);

Professor Norman R. Scott, Cornell University, USA (NAE member);

Professor Richard L. Smith, Jr., Tohoku University, Japan;

Professor Ying Zheng, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK (FCAE).

该系列丛书的目的是组织世界各地的生物能源专家出版一系列在不同领域与生物质相关的书籍，旨在每年至少出版1-2册专著。该系列丛书将着重于介绍与生物质生产，生物燃料，生物制品，化学品，生物材料，食品和医药产品，能源规划和政策，以及加工技术相关的所有方面的知识，研究和近展。该系列丛书将是强大的和综合的有关生物质生产，生物能源，生物燃料，生物制品的知识库。为科学家，学生，政策制定者和工程师提供知识以反映生物炼制这个交叉学科领域研究的爆炸性增长并引导该学科的发展。

目前，方老师发表英文专著20部（Springer 13部，44万次章节下载量）。该系列丛书出版12部专著，章节的许多作者或审稿人为（或成为）中国和主要发达国家院士或著名期刊的总编辑，章节下载量（电子版销售量）22万次。其中一本书赢得了2020年“斯普林格-自然中国新发展奖”，以表彰他对实现联合国可持续发展目标（SDGs）的杰出贡献。他编著的4 部专著已进入Springer高下载书籍前25%。该系列丛书已成为生物燃料研究最新进展和理论创新的知识库，它大大增加了中国和加拿大在可再生能源领域研究的影响力。