Principal Investigator

Dr Trinh received the bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2002 and the PhD degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2014. Currently Dr Trinh is a Research Fellow at the Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Centre (QMNC), Griffith University. His research areas focus on catalyst design and process development for sustainable chemistry in methane activation, CO2 reduction, N2 fixation, sono-catalysis, plasma-catalysis, plastic waste and biomass conversion 

MARK MA (PhD student)

Mark is a 3rd year PhD student. His PhD thesis title is "Tailoring of catalytic properties and the design of catalysis through defect and grain boundaries engineering."

Yuran CHENG (Internship reseach student)

Yuran is a value member contributing to all experimental setup on the sono-microreactor. He is a very smart and highly dedicated researcher. 

Kin Un TAI (Tommy)

Tommy is a last year student at the School of Engineering and Built Environment. His IAP project title is "Design Sono-Microreactor for wastewater treatment." 

Professor Nam-Trung NGUYEN (Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre (QMNC), Griffith University)

Prof NGUYEN is an ARC Laureate Fellow at the Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre (QMNC), Griffith University, Australia. He received his Dip-Ing (M. Eng.), Dr Ing (Ph. D.) and Dr Ing Habil (professorial qualification) degrees from Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. During his career, he was a faculty member at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) from 1999 to 2013 and a Professor and Director of Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre at Griffith University from 2013 to 2023. Prof Nguyen’s research focuses on microfluidics, nanofluidics, micro/nanomachining technologies, micro/nanoscale science, and instrumentation for biomedical applications. He has published over 500 journal papers and filed 8 patents, of which 3 were granted. Prof. Nguyen was named as one of the top 17 Australian researchers in Chemical & Material Sciences by the Research Special Report of The Australian in 2020, 2021 and 2022 and continuously listed in the Stanford top 2% most influential scientists globally since 2021. In 2023, he was granted an ARC Laureate Fellowship, which is the ultimate research fellowship in Australia, to propel his exciting field of research of micro- and elastofluidics.

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Professor Alexei LAPKIN (Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge )

Prof LAPKIN is a Professor of Sustainable Reaction Engineering at University of Cambridge. He studied chemistry at Novosibirsk State University (Russia), then obtained his PhD in chemical engineering at University of Bath (UK) under the supervision of Prof. W. J. Thomas and then was appointed as a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at University of Bath in 2000. In 2009 he was appointed as Professor of Engineering at University of Warwick and since 2013 he has been in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at Cambridge. His work is mainly on methods of process intensification for chemical manufacturing and sustainability aspects of manufacture of molecules and materials, including work on chemical data (chemoinformatics, data cleaning, data augmentation), digital twins in chemical manufacturing, machine learning and artificial intelligence methods in chemical synthesis and process development, and methods of environmental assessment of new chemical processes. He is also a Principal Investigator on several projects within Cambridge CARES in Singapore.

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Professor Joel W AGER (Materials Science and Engineering Department, UC Berkeley)

Prof AGER is a Senior Staff Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and an Adjunct Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, UC Berkeley. He is a Principal Investigator in the Electronic Materials Program,  Liquid Sunlight Alliance (LiSA), and Berkeley Educational Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS).  He graduated from Harvard College in 1982 with an A.B in Chemistry and from the University of Colorado in 1986 with a PhD in Chemical Physics. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Heidelberg, he joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1989. His research interests include the fundamental electronic and transport characteristics of photovoltaic materials, development of new photoanodes and photocathodes based on abundant elements for solar fuels production, and the development of new oxide and sulfide based transparent conductors. Professor Ager is a frequent invited speaker at international conferences and has published over 350 papers in refereed journals. 

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Dr Matthew SHERBURNE (Materials Science and Engineering Department, UC Berkeley)

Dr SHERBURNE is a Director of International Partnership and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Berkeley Educational Aliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS). Dr. Sherburne obtained his Master of Science and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from UC Berkeley. After finishing his Ph.D. he took a position at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in the Materials Science and Engineering department, where his research continued to focused on metals. He also founded a maker space with faculty in the College of Business to study the cross-cutting nature of additive manufacturing and teach the fundamentals of the design process. On returning to UC Berkeley he was the Program Director for the Singapore-Berkeley Research Institute for Sustainable Energy (SinBeRISE) and is the Director of International Programs for the Materials Science and Engineering department. His research focuses on applying computational techniques to the discovery, design and development of materials for a sustainable world: solar energy, catalytic reaction and CO2 reduction, and water for example.

Professor Samir H. MUSHRIF (Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada)

Prof MUSHRIF is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta (U of A). Before joining U of A, he was a faculty in the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from McGill University and did his postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, USA. He is an Editorial Board Member of ChemistrySelect, Journal of ChemPubSoc Europe and Wiley-VCH and a Senior Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE, USA). His recent awards/recognitions include the Discovery International Award 2017 by the Australian Research Council and the NANYANG EDUCATION AWARD 2016 (Singapore).  His research focuses on fundamental understanding of the catalyst structure, reaction mechanisms/kinetics and physicochemical interactions amongst the catalyst, solvent and reaction components is crucial to develop novel reactor systems for renewable and sustainable energy and to produce chemicals and fuels from unconventional resources in an environment friendly and benign manner. 

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Professor Mark SAEYS (Laboratory for Chemical Technology, Ghent University, Belgium)

Prof SAEYS obtained his PhD from Ghent University in 2002. From 2003 to June 2014 he was a professor of chemical engineering at the National University of Singapore. Since July 2014, he is a full professor at the Laboratory for Chemical Technology at Ghent University, Belgium. During his PhD, he was a visiting scientist with Matt Neurock at the University of Virginia and with Bill Green at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For his work on gas phase radical chemistry, he received the ExxonMobil Chemical Benelux Award in 2002 and the Richard A. Glenn Award in 2003. In Singapore, he was the Associate Director for academics in the Singapore-MIT Alliance-Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering program and a visiting professor of chemical engineering at the MIT. In 2013, he received the prestigious Odysseus Award from the Research Foundation-Flanders to establish a research program on modelling-guided catalyst design at Ghent University. While in Singapore, he was one of the authors of the Carbon Capture and Storage/Utilization Roadmap for Singapore. In Belgium, he was a co-author of “The Chemical Route to a CO2-neutral World”, a Viewpoint published by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium. His research combines modelling-guided catalyst design with experimental kinetic validation and state-of-the-art characterization to unravel and optimize catalytic processes. 

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Dr. Prince Nana AMANIAMPONG

Research Scientist (Chargé de Recherche-CRCN), French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Institut de Chimie des Milieux and Matériaux de Poitiers (IC2MP)

Prof. Francois JEROME 

CNRS research director at the Institute of Chemistry of Poitiers and Professor at the University of Poitiers, France.

Prof. Rong XU

Professor in the School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Prof. John MONDAL

Senior Scientist, CSIR-Indian InstituteofChemicalTechnology, Hyderabad, India.

Prof. Markus KRAFT

Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge and Director of Cambridge CARES in Singapore.

Prof. Chennupati JAGADISH 

Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Australian National University and President of the Australian Academy of Science .

Prof. Hongxia WANG

Professor & Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow, School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology 

Prof. Minh Tho NGUYEN

Professor in the Department of Chemistry,  University of Leuven, Belgium