Professor Peter Brimblecombe with two of his recent books on air pollution. As a world renowned expert in the field of air pollution, Professor Brimblecombe worked on Killer Smog: London, England with a New York based writer, Joyce L. Markovics.
Dr. Yarime Masaru, Associate Professor of School of Energy and Environment, has been awarded First Runner-up Prize in the Championship for the International Competition on Second Life for Retired Batteries from Electric Vehicles organized by the Environment Bureau of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
On 22 August 2017, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) signed a new collaborative agreement with the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAP/CAS) in Chengjiang, Yunnan. The signing ceremony was attended by President Way Kuo, President of CityU, Professor Jiang Zhu, Director of IAP, Professor Chong-Yin Li, Academician, CAS, Professor Johnny Chan of CityU, and Professors Wen Chen and Zi-Niu Xiao of IAP/CAS.
Tommy Yap Chun-yin, James Khong Yew-yuen and Calvin Gan Jing-fang from the School of Energy and Environment (SEE) at the City University of Hong Kong led a team with four other students from local and overseas universities to participate in the World Sustainable Built Environment International Youth Competition, jointly organized by the Construction Industry Council (CIC) and the Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC) in June 2017.
Congratulations to Mr. GUO Jiaxin Eric, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Alicia AN in the School of Energy and Environment (SEE), for receiving the Student Poster Award with a cash prize in the 11th International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes (ICOM 2017) held in Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA USA, in the period, 29 July – 4 August 2017.
Professor Martin Beniston of The University of Geneva, and former vice chairman of one of the working groups in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), delivered the 5th SEE Colloquium on 10th May, 2017. He is currently leading a major European project (www.acqwa.ch) to study the potential impacts of climate change on the Alps.
