Ya-Huei (Cathy) Chin is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto. She is a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Advanced Catalysis for Sustainable Chemistry (2016). She is recognized as an Emerging Leader in Chemical Engineering (2017), an award given by the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE), and a recipient of Humboldt Research Fellowship (2018), Ontario Early Researcher Award (2014) and Imperial Oil University Research Award (2014). She also received the Bill Burgess Teacher of the Year Award for Large Classes (2016). She joined the University in 2011, after receiving her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a research engineer (2000-2002) and then senior research scientist (2002-2005) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), one of the ten National Research Laboratories for the U.S. Department of Energy. Her recent work focuses on elucidating the molecular events during alkane oxidation on Group VIII metal clusters and conversion of oxygenates to value-added chemicals and liquid fuels. Specifically, she applies isotopic, kinetic, and density functional theory methods to study the dynamics of catalyst surfaces and catalytic pathways.