Yifend ZhangDr Yifeng Zhang is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He is also serving as Associate Editor at several prestigious journals, including Water Research, Scence of the Total Environment, and Frontiers in Microbiology. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from DTU in 2012. His major research interests are microbial electrochemical technology and biotechnology-based process development to support the 2nd, 6th, 7th, 12th, and 13th UN Sustainable Development Goals through sustainable water treatment, resource recovery, CO2 capture and utilization, biosynthesis, and environmental bioremediation & monitoring. His research has been highly innovative and contributed considerably to improving the fundamental understanding of microbial electrochemistry and developing cutting-edge, efficient, and economic-affordable technical solutions in the Water-Food-Energy-Climate nexus for sustainable development and green transition. This way, the wastewaters and greenhouse gases (e.g., CO2) are recovered and upcycled in the form of valuable bioproducts, which otherwise are treated as pollutants undergoing energy and carbon-intensive treatment processes. His research has been well documented in 99 SCI publications (19 as first author and 65 as the corresponding author), 2 patents, 3 book chapters, and =30 conference contributions. Most of the SCI publications are in top journals in the field, such as Energy & Environmental Science, Trends in Biotechnology, Environmental Science & Technology, and Water Research. According to Google Scholar, his works have been cited over 4100 times and with an H index of 36. Since 2012, He has been successfully attracting over 4 M Euro international and national research fundings. Especially in 2018, he received Carlsberg Foundation Distinguished Fellowships, which are given to talented young scientists to establish their research group. He was shortlisted and interviewed for the Young Investigator Program funded by Villum Foundation in the same year. In 2020, he was selected as top 50 among global competitions for The Elsevier Foundation-ISC3 Green & Sustainable Chemistry Challenge Award. He recently received Honorable Mentions from the James J. Morgan Award 2022 for Great Achievements in Environmental Science & Technology Read More Read Less
