Title: Professor Yan Ning, National University of Singapore: A Unified View of Biomass Conversion and Plastic Upcycling   

Speaker :Prof. Yan Ning (颜宁), Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore   

Host :Prof. Long Jinxing   

Time :Thursday, 25 December 2025, 10:40 – 11:30 a.m.   

Venue :Room 105 of the Shaw Engineering Building

Organizer :School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering   

[Brief profile]  

Prof. Yan Ning obtained her B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Peking University, then joined EPFL (Switzerland) as a Marie-Curie post-doctoral fellow. In 2012 she established the Green Catalysis Laboratory at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2018 and to Full Professor in 2024. She currently serves as Director of the NUS Hydrogen Innovation Centre.   

Her accolades include the NUS Outstanding Educator Award (2025), Asia-Pacific Catalysis Society Innovation Prize (2025), Singapore NRF Investigatorship (2022), NUS Young Researcher Award (2019), ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award (2018), and the RSC Environment, Sustainability & Energy Early-Career Award (2017). She has been listed as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (Chemistry) for 2022-2025.   

Prof. Yan is Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Catalysis, President of the Singapore Catalysis Society, and Vice-President of the Asia-Pacific Catalysis Association.

Announced by School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.