Prof. Xin Tu is Chair of Plasma Catalysis in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the University of Liverpool, UK. He received PhD in Physics from CORIA CNRS UMR 6614 (University of Rouen), France and PhD in Thermal Engineering from Zhejiang University, China in 2007. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (1/2008 to 8/2009) before joined the University of Manchester (UK) as a Postdoc Research Associate in the School of Chemistry (9/2009-2/2012). He was appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool in 2012 and was promoted to Professor in 2019. He has been working on interdisciplinary research at the interface of plasma science and chemical engineering directed towards environmental clean-up, fuel and chemical synthesis, and nuclear decommissioning.