Ange Nzihou is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Institute Mines Telecom (IMT), IMT Mines Albi (France) – CNRS - University of Toulouse and a non-resident fellow at Princeton University (USA). He is a laureate (2023) of the ERC Advanced Grant, the most prestigious and competitive European research funding. He is a Fulbright fellow and holds visiting professor positions at Princeton University (USA), Zhejiang University (China), the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and at Mahatma Gandhi University (India) where he holds a chair professorship on Sustainable Energy Materials. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal "Waste and Biomass Valorization (Springer Nature). He was named in the world’s top 2% most widely cited scientists list for the third consecutive year (2021-2025) in chemical engineering and energy fields by Stanford University scientist ranking. He has published more than 240 papers in international peer reviewed journals, 6 world patents (2 scaled-up in industry), edited 1 reference book, co-edited 4 books and co-authored 12 book chapters, and delivered about 58 plenary lectures in the fields of energy and added-value materials from biomass and waste; bioresources to biochar, graphitic materials and graphene; hydrogen and syngas production from bioresources, energy storage, pyrolysis, gasification, reforming, decarbonization. He was distinguished with many prestigious awards including the Grand Prix of the Academy of Sciences of France in Science for Energy Conversion and the distinction of Officer of the National Order of Merit by the President of France in 2025.