SEE continued to succeed in the recent funding exercise of the Environment and Conservation Fund (ECF). The principal investigators are (in alphabetical order) Dr. Alicia An, Prof.
Dr. Patrick Lee, Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies), has recently been awarded The President’s Award for the year 2020. This award recognises the awardees’ exemplary contributions to research and professional education. Only two awards were given in each academic rank of faculty members. Congratulations to the exceptional achievements of Dr. Lee.
Prof. Yip Hin Lap, Angus, Professor of SEE in joint appointment with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), was recently interviewed on a TV programme “Future Scope”(看出個未來).
Dr. Yun Hau Ng, Associate Professor, in collaboration with researchers from Australia, Malaysia and the United Kingdom, has developed a new photocatalyst which can produce methane fuel (CH4) selectively and effectively from carbon dioxide using sunlight.
The School of Energy and Environment (SEE) is pleased to announce that our MSc in Energy and Environment Programme has been accredited by The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) for a period of five years starting from September 2016 until 2021, in addition to the current accreditation by the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (IGEM).
Dr. Lin Zhang, Assistant Professor of SEE, was invited by Prof. Michael Pollitt, Vice President of International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) and professor of Business Economics at the University of Cambridge, to join the IAEE Strategic Committee for Publications. Dr. Zhang will lead the working group on reviewing the development of the Energy Journal, the flagship journal of the association since 1980.
Mr. Kyle Chung, Manager (Sustainability), Crystal International Group Limited, shared with SEE students and faculty members his professional experience in sustainability and apparel sector. As the guest speaker of SEE Colloquium in January 2021, Mr.
Dr. Carol Lin, an expert on microbial fermentation and bioprocessing, will lead the project in collaboration with nine leading scientists from disciplines of aerosol dynamics, infectious disease transmission risk and epidemiology, medical textile materials, sustainability, and waste valorisation in four major research universities in Hong Kong and the top epidemiology hospital in Guangzhou. SEE faculty members Prof. Chak K. Chan, Dr. Shauhrat Chopra, Dr.
