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Principal Investigator

Dr. Dan ZHAO
Dean’s Chair Associate Professor
PhD (Inorganic Chemistry), Texas A&M University, USA, 2010
MS (Polymer Chemistry and Physics), Zhejiang University, China, 2006
BS (Polymer Materials and Engineering), Zhejiang University, China, 2003
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Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
National University of Singapore
4 Engineering Drive 4, E5-02-16, 117585, Singapore
Tel: (+65) 6516 4679
Email: chezhao@nus.edu.sg
Dr. Zhao obtained his PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Hong-Cai Joe Zhou at Texas A&M University in 2010. After finishing his postdoctoral training at Argonne National Laboratory, he joined the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at National University of Singapore in July 2012 as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in July 2018. He started to serve as an Associate Editor of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research in June 2021. His research interests include advanced porous materials and hybrid membranes with the applications in clean energy and environmental sustainability.
Research Staff
Group Alumni
- Dechao WANG | Visiting Student (2021.01 – 2022.01) | Lecturer at Xi’an University of Science and Technology, China
- Jing ZHAO | Visiting Student (2019.08 – 2021.08) | Lecturer at Harbin Engineering University, China
- Yunpan YING | Postdoctoral Fellow (2017.08 – 2021.12) | Associate Professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
- Yi Di YUAN | PhD Student & Postdoctoral Fellow (2016.05 – 2022.04) | Researcher at Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX), Singapore
- Xin YU | Postdoctoral Fellow (2019.09 – 2022.04) | Researcher at Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth, Inorganic Membranes Research Center, Japan
- Weidong FAN | Postdoctoral Fellow (2019.09 – 2021.09) | Associate Professor at China University of Petroleum (East China), China
- Hongye YUAN | Postdoctoral Fellow (2018.01 – 2021.08) | Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
- Yuxiang WANG | PhD Student & Postdoctoral Fellow (2015.07 – 2021.07) | Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Kungang CHAI | Visiting Scholar (2020.01 – 2021.01) | Associate Professor at Guangxi University, China
- Zhiqiang LIANG | Visiting Scholar (2020.01 – 2020.04) | Associate Professor at Jilin University, China
- Avishek KARMAKAR | Postdoctoral Fellow (2017.10 – 2020.06) | Postdoctoral Fellow at Drexel University, USA
- Jian WANG | Visiting Scholar (2017.09 – 2018.09) | Associate Professor at Jiangsu Normal University, China
- Jian ZHANG | Postdoctoral Fellow (2017.08 – 2019.02) | Associate Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, China
- Sichang LONG | Research Engineer (2017.08 – 2019.01) | Software Consultant at Yonyou (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore
- Zhihong WANG | Visiting Scholar (2017.08 – 2018.08) | Associate Professor at Southwest Petroleum University, China
- Bhuvan SHAH | Master Student (2017.07 – 2018.12) | Founder and CEO at SpaceBlack Adsorbents, India
- Guoliang Liu| Postdoctoral Fellow (2016.11 – 2019.09) | Lecturer at Nanjing Tech University, China
- Linzhi ZHAI | Visiting Scholar (2016.09 – 2018.10) | Associate Professor at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, China
- Tanay KUNDU | Postdoctoral Fellow (2016.07 – 2018.08) | Assistant Professor at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India
- Hongsheng LU | Visiting Scholar (2016.03 – 2017.02) | Professor at Southwest Petroleum University, China
- Shaoming YING | Visiting Scholar (2015.08 – 2016.07) | Professor at Ningde Normal University, China
- Youdong CHENG | PhD Student (2015.07 – 2019.12) | Postdoctoral Fellow at KAUST, Saudi Arabia
- Linius BOLINOIS | Master Student (2015.07 – 2016.12) | Marketing Assistant at Arkema K.K., Japan
- Xuerui WANG | Postdoctoral Fellow (2015.04 – 2017.05) | Professor at Nanjing Tech University, China
- Jinqiao DONG | Postdoctoral Fellow (2015.03 – 2019.03) | Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Chenglong CHI | Reseach Engineer (2015.03 – 2016.08) | PhD student at The University of Manchester, UK
- Yuhong QIAN | PhD Student (2014.07 – 2018.11) | Senior Engineer at Micron Technology, Singapore
- Yongwu PENG | Postdoctoral Fellow (2014.04 – 2016.03) | Professor at Zhejiang University of Technology, China
- Zixi KANG | Postdoctoral Fellow (2014.03 – 2015.03) | Associate Professor at China University of Petroleum (East China), China
- Qing XU | Visiting Scholar (2013.12 – 2014.03) | Associate Professor at Ningbo University, China
- Zhengang GUO | Postdoctoral Fellow (2013.06 – 2014.06) | Lecturer at Fujian Jiangxia University, China
- Mei ZHANG | Research Engineer (2013.04 – 2014.07) | Lecturer at Shanghai High School, China
- Zhigang HU | PhD Student (2012.07 – 2016.04) | Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China