News & Events

The Monitoring and Assessment Panel Member, Prof. William Worek, Prof. Sebri Cetin, and Dr. V. Diamantis, of RGC conducted a Review Visit via Zoom on 6 October, 2021.  Senior research members of the project team  presented relevant research & developments and latest progresses, while representatives of research postgraduate student team introduced their respectively  researches briefly. The review visit came to a successful end after the fruitful discussion with panel members on how to move forward and engage more with public, government and industry.

A total of 27 speakers including 8 Post-doc and 19 Phd/Mphil students presented their progress of research works. TBR Workshop was organized by Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Control and Treatment of Heavy Metal Pollution (Hong Kong Branch), HKUST, in collaboration with HKU, CUHK, CityU, PolyU, TUDelft, UCT.

The first external advisory board meeting was held on 30 Aug through ZOOM. Principal Advisor, Prof. Nigel J. D. Garham and Board Member, Prof. Samir Kumar Khanal attended the online meeting. Project team members and ten student representatives reported their research progress, which were appreciated by the advisors.

Prof. Samir Kumar Khanal was invited to deliver a speech on Nanobubbles: An emerging frontier in environmental and agricultural applications. This seminar was organized by CNERC-CTHMP(HKB) by mixed-mode on 27 Aug 2021.

The second internal group meeting was held on 19 Aug through ZOOM. The objective of this virtual meeting is to prepare for Review Visit and the External Advisory Board Meeting, and also discuss about the project updates, future plan for fundamental research and pilot-scale works.

The delegations of DSD included Ms. Alice Pang (Director), Mr. Wilson PANG (Deputy Director), Mr. Eddie PAK (Assistant Director), Ms. Sussana LAI (Chief Engineer).

The delegations of ITB included Mr. Alfred Sit (Secretary), Ms. Rebecca Pun (Commissioner), Mr. Arthur Au (Deputy Commissioner), Ms. Sandy Cheung (Principal Assistant Secretary), Ms. Fiona Au (Assistant Commissioner), Mr. Charlson Chiu (Assistant Secretary).