The Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT)
The Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was cofounded by CAS, the provincial government of Shandong and the municipal government of Qingdao in 2006. On August 1, 2011, CAS and the Qingdao Municipal Government signed an agreement, marking the official launch of the second phase of construction.
In 2017, guided by a visionary roadmap of the CAS leadership, the two sibling institutes of QIBEBT and Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) have initiated a major undertaking of syncretized development. In 2020, based on QIBEBT as the backing unit, the construction of Shandong Energy Institute (SEI) was officially launched, which sets up a platform for the institute to serve regional economic and social development. The same year, the Qingdao New Energy Shandong Laboratory was unveiled, which aims to promote Shandong-rooted original innovations in new energy and accelerate transformation of its energy generation and consumption framework into a clean and efficient one.
The Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB)
The Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is China’s only comprehensive academic research institution specializing in the studies of life processes of inland aquatic organisms, ecological environment protection and utilization of biological resources. It was evolved from Natural History Museum of Academia Sinica founded in Nanjing in 1930, and was reorganized in 1934 as Institute of Zoology and Botany of Academia Sinica.
The Institute was divided into two institutes under Academia Sinica in 1944 - Institute of Zoology and Institute of Botany. In 1950, after the establishment of the CAS, IHB was formed by merging the Institute of Zoology of Academia Sinica, Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Peiping, and Division of Phycology at Institute of Botany of Academia Sinica. It was then located in Shanghai and moved to settle in Wuhan in 1954. In 2011, IHB entered into the pilot project of the CAS Innovation 2020, a program aims to further promote innovation and turn scientific discoveries into technologies that power economic growth and sustainable development. At present, CAS Pioneer Initiative, an action in response to the call of the new Chinese government for deepening reform of China's S&T structure and mechanisms, recognizes IHB as an institute featuring ecological civilization.  
Director Profile
Xuefeng Lu
Email:
lvxf@qibebt.ac.cn
Biochemist and synthetic biologist. He earned his PhD at the University of New Mexico and completed postdoc studies at Stanford. Since 2008, he has held a professorship and currently serves as the director at the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He has been the honored recipient of numerous awards, inclusive of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He is actively engaged in leveraging microbial systems such as cyanobacteria, filamentous fungi, and yeast for advancements in the sphere of synthetic biology and green biomanufacturing.
Cheng-Cai Zhang
Email:
cczhang@ihb.ac.cn
Microbiologist. He worked as a professor at the Aix Marseille University in France, and now at the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB), CAS while serving as the director of the Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, IHB, CAS since 2016. His research areas include microbiology, genetics, cell biology, and synthetic biology, using model cyanobacteria to investigate the molecular mechanisms of cell growth, division and development. His studies also involve synthetic biology approaches for the development of technologies for cyanobacterial bloom control and other potential applications.
Jindong Zhao
Email:
jzhao@pku.edu.cn
Phycologist. CAS Member; Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Developing Countries; Distinguished Young Scholars of the National Science Foundation; Chang Jiang Scholars. Professor at the Peking University since 1994, and served as the director of the Institute of Hydrobiology, CAS, from 2007 and 2018. His main research focuses on the mechanisms of photosynthesis, as well as those involved in heterocyst differentiation and pattern formation in cyanobacteria.
Green Carbon
With the goal of minimizing CO2 emissions for a sustainable future and a greener society, Green Carbon offers an in-depth and multidisciplinary view of highly important research advances in the field. The journal focuses on the utilization of green carbon resources, the development of green conversion technologies, the management of carbon life cycle, and the revolution of carbon research paradigm.

The topics of interest include but not limited to:
Renewable carbon: resources, environment, energy, chemicals and materials
Green carbon utilization technologies: electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, chemical catalysis, biocatalysis and bio-manufacturing
Synthetic biology for carbon fixation and conversion
Electrochemical energy conversion and storage
Net-zero and negative carbon technology
Carbon management: carbon footprint and life cycle assessment, carbon simulation and policy
Artificial intelligence and data science in green carbon research
Editors-in-Chief:
Valentin Valtchev
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Xuefeng Lu
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