The School of Energy and Environment (SEE) at CityUHK recently organized a series of “SEE Dialogue with Professionals” during the Semester B, 2023/24. These engaging sessions aimed to provide undergraduate students with valuable insights into various professional paths and offer guidance for their future careers.
Several esteemed faculty members from the School of Energy and Environment (SEE), including Prof. Patrick Sit, Prof. Yun Hau Ng, Prof. Edwin Tso, Prof. Jung-Eun Chu, Prof. Jason Lam, Prof. Henry He, Prof. Yiming Qin, along with a group of SEE students, had the privilege of being invited to visit Xue Long 2 at Victoria Harbour, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong on 10 April 2024.
Professor Edwin Tso, from the School of Energy and Environment (SEE) at City University of Hong Kong, has spearheaded a remarkable breakthrough in the field of passive radiative cooling materials. Collaborating with a dedicated research team, Prof. Tso has developed an innovative cooling ceramic that boasts outstanding optical properties for energy-efficient cooling generation. This cutting-edge material exhibits an impressive solar reflectivity of 99.6% and mid-infrared thermal emission of 96.5%, surpassing existing solutions.
We were thrilled to have Ir Alice Chow, Arup Fellow and Director at Arup, join us at the SEE Colloquium on 9 April 2024, to share her valuable insights on "My Journey to Circular Economy in Hong Kong". During the Colloquium, Alice highlighted the critical issue of depleting natural resources resulting from excessive exploitation for economic growth and development. She emphasized the importance of adopting a sustainable approach across all sectors to achieve long-term economic growth.
Prof. Carol Lin recently awarded the MilliporeSigma Green Chemistry Education Challenge Awards (US$5,000) by Beyond Benign, Inc. This is a non-profit organization co-founded in 2007 by Dr. John Warner and Dr. Amy Cannon, co-located with the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry in Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA.
Prof. Xuan Wang’s PhD student Xi LIU received the JESE excellent poster presentation award in the 12th National Conference on Environmental Chemistry, where he presented his PhD study on “Global impact of chlorine chemistry on secondary organic aerosols”.
The conference was held during 17-21 November 2023 in Wuhan, which had more than 10,000 attendances. The award is one of the 12 selected from over 1,200 poster presentations.
SEE PhD student Mr. Oluwafemi Ebenezer ADEYERI, co-supervised by Prof. Wen Zhou and Prof. Xuan Wang, published a research paper entitled “Minimizing uncertainties in climate projections and water budget reveals the vulnerability of freshwater to climate change” in One Earth. This work addresses the critical issue of global water scarcity and its implications for agriculture, food security, and human sustainability.
Prof. Edwin TSO, Prof. WU Wei and Prof. WANG Jian from the School of Energy and Environment at CityU, and Prof. LI Weihong and Prof. DUAN Penghao from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at CityU participated the first Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao GBA Energy Technology Forum and the launch of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao GBA Engineering Thermophysics Society and Guangdong Engineering Thermophysics Society, which were supported by Guandong Provincial Association for Science and Technology and Guangzhou Association for Science and Technology. Prof.
Professor Kim and his colleagues published a paper on the side effects of geoengineering methods in Communications Earth & Environment. Ultimately, we must transition to a decarbonized society for a sustainable world, but it will require a lot of social cost and effort.
We are delighted to share the exciting news that Prof. Kenneth Leung, the Dean of the School of Energy and Environment (SEE), and his group have been honored with the first joint winner in the category “Critical Review” in the 2022 Environmental Science and Technology Best Paper Award from the American Chemical Society.
