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Raymond R. Tan is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and University Fellow of De La Salle University. He is a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences and an Academician of the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology. He has over 600 publications and 17,000 citations in the Scopus database with an h-index of 65. Based on Google Scholar citations, Prof. Tan ranks among the top researchers in the world in the subject areas of process integration, process systems engineering, and carbon management. He is editor-in-chief of Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability, subject editor of Sustainable Production and Consumption. He also serves as editorial board member of Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy and the Cleaner Engineering and Technology. He is the author of the books Process Integration Approaches to Planning Carbon Management Networks and Input-Output Models for Sustainable Industrial Systems, and editor of the books Recent Advances in Sustainable Process Design and Optimization and Process Design Strategies for Biomass Conversion Systems. He has received multiple scientific awards from government and professional organizations in the Philippines and is included in the Reuters "Hot List" of the world's top 1000 climate researchers.