Dingding Yao is an Associate Professor at Huazhong Agricultural University. She obtained her Ph.D. from the State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion (SKLCC) at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2018. She also had one year’s study as a Visiting Researcher on an EPSRC-funded project at University of Leeds. Following completion of Ph.D., she worked as a Postdoc Research Fellow in a NRF-funded project (E2S2) at National University of Singapore. In 2021, she joined College of Engineering, Huazhong Agricultural University as Associate Professor.
Dingding’s current work focuses on thermo-chemical conversion of solid waste, upcycling plastic waste, pyrolysis and catalysis. She has published more than 20 academic papers in this area and has more than 880 citations. She also acts as reviewer for 10 journals such as Chemical Engineering Journal, Renewable and Sustainable Energy