Ruben Snellings is an associate professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the KU Leuven, Belgium. He received his Doctoral degrees in Earth and Environmental Sciences from KU Leuven in 2006 and 2011, respectively. He has served as a Senior Scientist in Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium. His research areas include applied mineralogy, low-carbon cement, mineral admixtures, etc., and he has published over 100 SCI papers, with more than 5,000 citations. He currently serves as the Chairman of the RILEM Technical Committee on Accelerated Mineral Carbonation in Building Materials Production Processes (TC309-MCP) and the Technical Committee on Testing Reactivity of Mineral Admixtures (TC267-TRM). He has been the keynote speaker at two consecutive International Cement Chemistry Conference (ICCC).