The Team
Who We Are
Chair Professor
PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
Dr. Armin Rezayan
Postdoctoral Researcher
12/2023
Research Project: Catalytic Upcycling of Plastic Waste into Fuel-Range Hydrocarbons
Dr. Dan Wu
Postdoctoral fellow
11/2024
A postdoctoral fellow under the Hong Kong Scholars Program (香江學者計劃) and an associated professor at Zhengzhou University in China.
Research Project: The catalytic hydrodeoxygenation of biomass molecules to produce SAFs.
Dr. Yali Liu
Visiting Professor
09/2024
A visiting scholar and an associated professor at Nanjing Forestry University.
Research Project: The photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to ethanol.
Dr. Zhigang Que
Visiting Scholar
08/2024
A visiting scholar and an associated professor at Jiangxi Academy of Sciences in China.
Research Project: The catalytic hydrodeoxygenation of bio-oils.
Sichen FAN
Visiting Ph.D. student
11/2023
Research Project: Microwave-assisted Catalytic Pyrolysis of Plastic Waste into Sustainable Aviation Fuels
Di WU
Ph.D. student
08/2024
Research Project: Upcycling the Food Waste Lipids into Biobased Non-Isocyanate Polyurethane (NIPU) resins
Kaihuang CHEN
Ph.D. student
08/2024
Research Project: Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to C2-C4 higher alcohols
Yuwen CHEN
Ph.D. student
08/2024
Research Project: Thermal catalytic conversion of bio-feedstocks to sustainable aviation fuels
Xinru ZHAO
Ph.D. student
12/2024
Research Project: The mechanism of ammonia decomposition to produce hydrogen at low temperature using ammonia gas as hydrogen storage carrier.
Yuhan LIAO
Ph.D. student
01/2025
Research Project: Hydrothermal gasification/reforming of aqueous organics (ethanol, glucose, glycerol, acetic acids, APs from HTC/HTL process)