Chengdong Yuan is Professor, Deputy CREI Director for International Relations, and Principal Research Scientist at the world-level scientific center "Rational Development of Liquid Hydrocarbon Resources of the Planet" at Skoltech. His research interests focus on CCUS, in-situ hydrogen generation, and efficient hydrocarbon recovery, including thermal methods for enhanced oil recovery (steam injection, in-situ combustion), new technologies for in-situ heavy oil upgrading, catalytic in-situ oil upgrading, catalytic oxidation of crude oil, chemical flooding for interfacial phenomena (wettability of solids, interfacial tension, foams, and emulsions), and profile control/water shutoff technologies.

He holds a PhD in Oil and Gas Field Development Engineering from Southwest Petroleum University, China. He worked as an Associate Professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Kazan Federal University and as a Senior Researcher in the Department of Physical Chemistry at the same university. He has authored 7 patents and more than 180 scientific publications in the Scopus database (h-index: 37) and more than 100 publications in Web of Science (h-index: 33).

He is recognized in Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List 2024/2025 in Energy. 

He was Guest Editor for the international journal FUEL. He serves as an Associate Editor for Geoenergy Science and Engineering (GEOEN) and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Chemical Engineering and Renewable Fuels (JCERF).