Gyorgy Szekely is a chemical engineer with degrees from the Technical University of Budapest, and the Technical University of Dortmund. After working at Imperial College London, and the University of Manchester, he settled at the Advanced Membranes & Porous Materials Center at KAUST.Dan Zhao is Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on advanced porous materials and membranes with applications in clean energy and environmental sustainability.