Dr. Hongyuan Chuai received her PhD degree from Nankai University in 2019. During her PhD study, she worked as a joint PhD student in Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CRPP, CNRS) from October 2016 to October 2018. Then she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Tianjin University and now she is working as a research fellow at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She discovered and proposed the carbon reduction reaction for the first time in the world, pioneering a new direction for the electroreforming of carbon materials into high-carbon chemicals. She has published over ten papers as the first/corresponding author in renowned journals such as ACS Catalysis, and has been granted/applied for two patents. She has been awarded to Best Researcher Award for the contribution and honourable achievement in innovation research.