Dongzhu Wu is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree at The Ohio State University (OSU) under the supervision of Dr. W.S. Winston Ho for the development of novel membrane technology for gas separation and water purification. He graduated from the University of Southern California, with a MS degree in Chemical Engineering in 2012, and Zhejiang University of Technology, China, with a BS degree in 2010. His main research focus and accomplishments are the development of a novel composite membrane for CO2 separation from flue gas in coal-fired power plants and from < 1%CO2 concentration sources. Particularly, he has developed a pilot-scale fabrication process for the nanoporous polyethersulfone membrane as the substrate for the composite membrane employed in CO2 separation. He also investigated the effect of the SO2 on the separation performance of the amine-containing facilitated transport membranes. He published several papers in Journal of Membrane Science, presented papers at AIChE the 12th NGRPC. He received the Outstanding Graduate Award for Academic Achievement in 2016 and 2017 from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at OSU. Ultimately, Dongzhu is interested in pursuing an industrial career to develop products or processes for making positive impacts to the chemical engineering industry.