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. Haiwei JIANG
Visiting Scholar
12/2025
Research Project: Biomass hydrothermal conversion and pollution control
Dr. Xian Wu
Postdoctoral fellow
05/2025
Research Project: The catalytic deep hydrogenation (D-HDO) of biocrude.
Kaihuang CHEN
Ph.D. student
08/2024
Research Project: Electrocatalytic Upgrading of Lignocellulosic Biomass Derivatives via Hydrodeoxygenation for Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuels
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.
Di WU
Ph.D. student
08/2024
Research Project: Upcycling the Food Waste Lipids into Biobased Non-Isocyanate Polyurethane (NIPU) resins
Faishal Dzaky Hasbullah
Ph.D. student
09/2025
Research Project: Development of Catalysts for Upcycling Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Waste into Sustainable Aviation Fuels
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)
Chen Chao
Visiting Ph.D. student
05/2025
Research Field: Production of sustainable aviation fuels from waste plastic via catalytic pyrolysis and hydrogenolysis assisted by AI
Guoqiang ZHU
Ph.D. student
09/2025
Research Project: Hydrothermal Carbonization Biomass to Synthesis Value-added Hard Carbon Materials
Chengxin WANG
Ph.D. student
09/2025
Research Project: Hydrothermal Carbonization of Food Waste Hydrolysate
Jinye HU
Ph.D. student
01/2026
Research Project: Marine biomass refining to produce biobased materials (crosslinking agents, hydrogels, coating materials, carbon materials)
Alumni
Dr. Yali Liu
Visiting Professor
09/2024 - 09/2025
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
08/2024-08/2025
A visiting scholar and an associated professor at Jiangxi Academy of Sciences in China.
Research Project: The catalytic hydrodeoxygenation of bio-oils.
Dr. Sichen FAN
Visiting Ph.D. student
11/2023-05/2025
Research Project: Microwave-assisted Catalytic Pyrolysis of Plastic Waste into Sustainable Aviation Fuels