Gadi Rothenberg is Professor and Chair of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University. For the past 30 years, he has been teaching courses on catalysis, scientific writing and innovation and entrepreneurship. Rothenberg was voted 'lecturer of the year' by the chemistry students. He has published five books and 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals, invented 16 patents and co-founded four companies. His current research interests include clean energy, biomass conversion, and creating value from waste.