**Meet the editors**

Iyad Karamé, PhD is a Full-time Professor at the Faculty of Sciences in the Lebanese University in Beirut, and the Director of the "Laboratory of Catalysis Organometallic and Materials (LCOM)," Department of Chemistry. He got his PhD degree from the Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University in France in January 2004. He was an Assistant Professor and Researcher (ATER) at the Ecole

Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, for 1 year (2004–2005), an invited researcher at the Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse in Rostock, Germany (2005– 2006), and then at the Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry of Surface, CPE Lyon, France, till 2008. His principal axes of research are organometallic and green catalysis and organic synthesis for different applications (chelating macrocycles, ligands for metal complexes, CO2 and glycerol valorization, organocatalysts).

Hassan Srour, PhD is a research and development engineer at the École supérieure de chimie physique électronique de Lyon (C2P2-CPE de Lyon). He got his PhD degree from University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in France in October 2013. He was a postdoctoral

fellow at the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS), France (Nov. 2013–Mar. 2016). His principal axes of research are organic synthesis, polymer electrolytes, electrochemistry, and catalysis for different applications (energy storage systems and CO2 valorization).
