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Dr. Richen Lin is a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Environmental Research Institute (ERI), University College Cork (UCC). He is the lead PI in the EPA funded ASSET project. He received his PhD in Energy and Environmental Engineering from Zhejiang University, China. His research interests include: 1) biomass pre-treatment, characterization, and kinetic modelling; 2) gaseous biofuels production (biohydrogen, biomethane); and 3) thermodynamics of microbial electron transfer in anaerobic digestion. He has co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed articles.

Email: richen.lin@ucc.ie

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Prof. Jerry Murphy serves as the Centre Director of MaREI (Marine and Renewable Energy Ireland), as Chair of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at UCC, as Leader of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Bioenergy Biogas Task, and as Vice-Director of UCC’s ERI. He has represented Ireland at International Energy Agency (IEA) Bioenergy since 2007, and has authored and edited numerous IEA Bioenergy reports. He is an editorial board member for Bioresource Technology and Renewable Energy. Prof. Murphy has authored over 140 peer review journal papers, and is listed as one of the highest-cited civil engineers (2016 Shanghai Ranking of academic subjects).

Email: jerry.murphy@ucc.ie

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Prof. Alan Dobson has a Ph.D in Biochemistry from the National University of Ireland, Galway and is Chair of Environmental Microbiology in the School of Microbiology at UCC, Ireland. His main research interests are the the study of microorganisms in either natural or artificial environments and their potential biotechnological exploitation. His group are focused at gaining a fuller understanding of how microbes survive, grow and interact in their various ecological niches. He has to date published more than 240 peer-reviewed papers. In 2013 he was elected to the Royal Irish Academy, the highest honour for an Irish academic.

Email: a.dobson@ucc.ie

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Dr. Karthik Rajendran is a senior postdoctoral researcher at ERI, UCC. He had worked on the EPA, GNI funded project on incentivizing biomethane in Ireland. This work assesses the techno-economic and policy aspects of biomethane commercialization in Ireland. Prior to that, he worked as a postdoc in Oregon State University and University of Hawaii USA on exploring the commercialization opportunity of advanced biofuels/bio-based products. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles.

Email: k.rajendran@ucc.ie

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Dr. Xihui Kang is a postdoctoral researcher at ERI, UCC. He had worked on the SFI funded project on electrofuels in a circular economy system in Ireland. He received his PhD in Biochemical Engineering from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. His research interests include: 1) biomass pre-treatment, characterization, and green chemistry; 2) gaseous biofuels production (biohydrogen, biomethane); and 3) biological carbon dioxide conversion. He has co-authored more than 20 peer-reviewed articles.

Email: XKang@ucc.ie

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Benteng Wu is a PhD student at ERI. His current work focuses on the production of advanced gaseous biomethane transport fuel in an integrated circular cascading bio-based system. He has co-authored 9 peer-reviewed articles.

Email: benteng.wu@ucc.ie

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