Principal Investigator
Prof. Alicia AN
PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, MHKIE, Registered Korea Civil Engineer, Member of the Association of Energy Engineers (MAEE), Certified Carbon Auditor
Dr. Alicia An is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) at HKUST, where she leads the Advanced Membranes for Water and Energy (AMWE) research group. Alicia obtained her PhD from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, HKSUT. She began her academic career as a project assistant professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and the City University of Hong Kong, where she rose from Assistant to full professor before joining HKUST.
With over 20 years of experience in the field of membrane-based water and wastewater treatment, she has published more than 140 peer-reviewed journal articles on emerging technologies such as Membrane Distillation, Forward Osmosis, and hybrid Reverse Osmosis systems, with a focus on the removal of emerging pollutants and resource recovery.
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Awards and Recognition
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Top 2% of the world’s most highly cited scientists from the report published by Elsevier and Stanford University since 2020.
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Awarded “RGC Research Fellow” through the Research Fellow Scheme (RFS) by HKRGC in 2022/23
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CityU Outstanding Research Award for 2023 in the Junior Faculty Category
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Associate Editor for the Journal of Process Safety and Environmental Protection
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Editorial Board member for Desalination and the Journal of Water Process Engineering.
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Advisory board member for XPRIZE Water Scarcity 2024: https://www.xprize.org/prizes/water/people/board
Meet our team
Dr. Muhammad Usman FARID
Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Jiawei SUN
Graduate Student, Postdoctoral Fellow
Mingyi JIA
PhD Year 4
Xiaolu LI
PhD Year 2
HUI Lap Hung
Research Assistant
Dr. Gang LU
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Bing CHEN
Postdoctoral Fellow
Zhenyu HU
PhD Year 4
Ying BI
PhD Year 1
Gigi Wing Chi AU
P/T Research Assistant
Dr. Gitaek BANG
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Tian TAN
Postdoctoral Fellow
Min Wei BOEY
PhD Year 3
Xinxin WEI
PhD Year 1
Dr. Wentao SHANG
Graduate Student, Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Jianhao QIAN
Postdoctoral Fellow
Vincent Po Hong LEE
PhD Year 3
Jixian WU
PhD Year 1
Our Previous Members
Dr. Jiaxin GUO
PhD graduated in 2018 (Professor, Xi'an Jiao Tong university)
Dr. Noman Khalid KHANZADA
PhD graduated in 2021 (Postdoc, NYU Abu Dhabi)
Dr. Bowen Pak Wai WONG
PhD graduated in 2022 (Project Manager, Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency (HKQAA))
Dr. Shengmin YIN
Postdoc in 2020 (Assistant Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
Dr. David von Eiff
PhD graduated in 2018 (Director, Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute)
Dr. Jehad KHARRAZ
HKPFS graduated in 2021 (Postdoc, Khalifa University)
Dr. Xinning ZHANG
PhD graduated in 2024
Dr. Baoping ZHANG
Postdoc in 2022 (Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Dr. Bhaskar Jyoti DEKA
PhD graduated in 2019 (Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Rookie)
Dr. Joonho YEO
PhD graduated in 2021 (Researcher, Green Technology Centre, Korea)
Dr. Eui-Jong LEE
Postdoc in 2014~2016 (Assistant Professor, Daegu University, Korea)
Siyoung BYUN
Visiting Student in 2023 from Pusan National University
Dr. Vicki Man Wai YIM
PhD graduated in 2020 (Researcher, Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited (NAMI))
Dr. Paula Jungwon CHOI
PhD graduated in 2022 (Postdoc, Sungkyunkwan University)
Dr. Wei JIA
Postdoc in 2020 (Associate Professor, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Dongjjin SHIM
Visiting Student in 2023 from Pusan National University