Dr Yijiao Jiang is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at Macquarie University (MQ), Sydney. She is Chief Investigator of the MQ Sustainable Energy Research Centre and the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub. After completing her PhD at University of Stuttgart, she worked as postdoc at ETH Zürich from 2008 to 2010. Yijiao was awarded UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship in 2011 and ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) in 2012, which was jointly hosted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Since joining MQ in August 2014, she has secured competitive research grants from the ARC Research Hub with industrial partners (Rio Tinto and JITRI), ARC DP, the EU H2020 etc. Currently Yijiao is leading a dynamic research group with 1 ARC DECRA, 1 postdoc and 7 PhD students. Her research interests mainly focus on the development of better thermal-, photo-, and electro-catalytic systems for green chemical processes, renewable energy production and environmental protection. She has developed various in situ and operando spectroscopic techniques including NMR, EPR, IR, UV-Vis and Raman for achieving breakthroughs in catalysis research.