SEE has 12 Faculty Members Awarded GRF/ECS Research Grants in 2023/24 Exercise
The Research Grants Committee (RGC) released the results of the 2023/24 General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) exercise on 30 June. We are pleased to note that the School of Energy and Environment (SEE) has 12 faculty members received the awards this year and secured total research funding exceeding HK$11M.
| Project Investigator (PI) | Project Title |
| Prof. Henry He, Assistant Professor | Toxicokinetics and Toxicodynamics of an Emerging Group of E-Waste Pollutants Liquid Crystal Monomers in Zebrafish |
| Prof. Jason Lam, Assistant Professor | The Mechanistic Investigation and Operando Analysis of the Catalytic Synergy in Mixed-phase MoS2 for Highly Selective Electrocatalytic Reduction of NO3(-) |
| Prof. Patrick Lee, Professor | Elucidating the Influences of Environmental Pollution on Microbial Ecosystems and Biotransformation Functions in Pearl River Estuary Sediments in Dry and Wet Seasons |
| Prof. Carol Lin, Associate Professor | Dual Regulation of Light and Carbon Source Facilitate Sustainable Microalgae-based Wastewater Treatment for Remediating High-Concentration Emerging Pollutants |
| Prof. Chunhua Liu, Professor | Noncontact Electromechanical Energy Conversion System: A Novel Wireless Electromagnetic Actuator for Direct Manipulating Apparatus |
| Prof. Sai Kishore Ravi, Assistant Professor | Photosynthetic Biohybrids with Carbon Dots for Solar Hydrogen Production from Wastewater |
| Prof. Jin Shang, Associate Professor | Selective Gas Adsorption by Single-Atom Extraframework Transition Metal Sites Regularly Arranged Inside Porous Crystalline Matrices |
| Prof. Edwin Tso, Associate Professor | Coral-inspired and Colored Daytime Passive Radiative Coolers Using Photoluminescent Carbon Dots for Cooling Power Recovery in Building Applications |
| Prof. Jian Wang, Assistant Professor | Noble Metal-Free Mn/Co-Based Oxygen-Evolving Catalysts for Acidic Water Electrolysis: Operando Study, Dynamic Reconstruction Modulation, and Electrolyzer Test |
| Prof. Xue Wang, Assistant Professor | Efficient Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Monoxide to High Concentrated Multi-Carbon (C2+) Alcohol |
| Prof. Angus Yip, Professor | Simulation-Guided Design and Fabrication of High-performance Perovskite/Organic Tandem Solar Cells |
| Prof. Lin Zhang, Associate Professor | Climate Financing of Ongoing and Intensified Climate Change: Evidence from Tropical Cyclones in the Coastal Cities in China |
GRF and ECS success is one of the key performance indicators for research. Congratulations to the winners!
