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Principal Investigator

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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.

Contact

Office:    Room 4552 (HKUST - CBE)

Phone:   (852) 3469 2242

Email:   alicia.kjan@ust.hk

Awards and Recognition

  • Top 2% of the world’s most highly cited scientists from the report published by Elsevier and Stanford University since 2020.

  • Awarded “RGC Research Fellow” through the Research Fellow Scheme (RFS) by HKRGC in 2022/23

  • CityU Outstanding Research Award for 2023 in the Junior Faculty Category

  • Associate Editor for the Journal of Process Safety and Environmental Protection

  • Editorial Board member for Desalination and the Journal of Water Process Engineering.

  • ​Advisory board member for XPRIZE Water Scarcity 2024: https://www.xprize.org/prizes/water/people/board

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Team

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

Previous Members

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

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