The Team
Who We Are
Chair Professor of Advanced Biorefinery, Director of Research Centre for Resources Engineering towards Carbon Neutrality
PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
Dr. Armin Rezayan
Postdoctoral researcher:
12/2023- 7/2026
Research Assistant Professor:
8/2026
Research Project:
Biorefinery & Waste Valorization
Biomass & Waste Thermocatalytic Conversion
Heterogeneous Catalysis for Bio-based Fuels & Chemicals
Plastic Waste Upcycling into SAF/LCAF
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