Dr. Chuan Ma is a Professor and Hong-Shen Young Scholar in School of Energy and Power Engineering at Chongqing University. He has been engaged in research on solid waste recycling and pollution control, involving: (1) Thermochemical conversion of carbon-containing solid waste (Biomass/waste plastics); (2) Formation mechanism and prevention technology of pollutants in energy utilization; (3) Development of high-grade composite material recycling technology;(4) Control technology of new pollutants derived from solid waste (Microplastics).

He graduated from Wuhan University of Technology with a B.Eng. in 2012 and received his PhD in Thermal Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2017.  He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology for 3 years, focusing on the development of various recycling technologies for high-valued solid waste. In December 2019, he got the JSPS Fellowship from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He moved to Tohoku University in 2020 to carry out his JSPS research in the chemical recycling of solid waste (plastic and biomass). In 2023  He joined School of Energy and Power Engineering at Chongqing University. 

He was a co-investigator on a JSPS project of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and was a main member of two sub-projects of the New Energy Industry Technology Development Agency (NEDO) (total budget of 284.57 and 2.065 billion yen respectively). He participated in the Japan Science and Technology Agency JST Emergency Support Project (1.5 billion yen) and several projects funded by the Ministry of Environment, Japan. He has written over 40 scientific papers (including 3 ESI highly cited papers ), published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Fuel, Green Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Journal, etc. Total citations are more than 2000 times, and the  H-index is 22. Authorized 2 national invention patents, and 1 Japanese patent. He is a member of associate editor in the Journal of Frontier in Energy Research and a guest editor in the Journal of Energies.