Congratulations to Mr. Zhixiong DING, PhD student of Prof. Wei WU, Associate Professor, School of Energy and Environment (SEE), for receiving the Distinguished PhD Student Award under the Excellent Young Researcher Award category of Energy and Built Environment at the third International Chinese Conference on Energy and Built Environment. Zhixiong’s research focuses on absorption-based thermochemical energy storage.
A growing proportion of the global population is living in urbanized cities, making hygiene in man-made environments, especially indoor ones, of importance to the health of occupants. In a new study published in Nature Communications, the research group of Prof.
Prof. Shauhrat S. Chopra, Assistant Professor, from the School of Energy and Environment (SEE) has joined forces with an international group of industrial ecology experts to publish a White Paper titled “10 INSIGHTS FROM INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY FOR THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY” on 26 June 2023. The report, led by Dr.
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$11M.
Invited by Professor Michael Pollitt (Vice President of International Association for Energy Economics and Professor of Business Economics at University of Cambridge) and Professor Adonis Yatchew, (Editor-in-Chief of The Energy Journal and Professor of Economics at University of Toronto), Dr.
Prof. Yun Hau Ng, Professor of the School of Energy and Environment (SEE) has started his role as Associate Editor of Sustainable Materials and Technologies on 1 June 2023. Sustainable Materials and Technologies (SM&T) is an international, cross-disciplinary journal, published by Elsevier (impact factor of 10.681).
Dr. Henry He, Assistant Professor of the School of Energy and Environment (SEE), recently received HK$ 976,000 funding from the Marine Conservation Enhancement Fund (MCEF). This two-year project, titled “Migration of a Novel Class of Organic Light-Emitting Materials (OLEMs) from E-waste to Finless Porpoises”, will trace the migration of a variety of organic light-emitting materials, from electronic devices/waste to Finless Porpoises, also known as “江豚” living in Hong Kong and Pearl River Estuary (PRE) waters.
We are pleased to announce that Professor YUAN Zhiguo has reported his duty at the School of Energy and Environment (SEE) as Chair Professor of Urban Water Management from 2 May 2023.
Professor Yuan received his PhD degree from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. He served as Professor and Director of the Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology at The University of Queensland until July 2022.
We are pleased to announce that Prof. Alex Jen, Prof. Yun Hau Ng, Prof. Angus Yip, and Prof. Xiaoling Zhang have been awarded the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers Award for 2022.
Co-founders of i2Cool Limited, Dr. Edwin Tso (Assistant Professor) and PhD alumnus, Dr. Martin Zhu, have been awarded the Gold Prize in the TERA-Award Smart Energy Innovation Competition. This prestigious award recognizes their revolutionary Electricity-free cooling technology, for which they would receive USD$1 million as the winners.
