Plenary Speaker
Biography
Liu Bin is a Distinguished Professor and Senior Vice Provost (Faculty & Institutional Development) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She is the founding director of the NUS Green Energy Program and also the Centre for Hydrogen Innovations. She championed the NUS sustainability research and climate change defence from 2019 to 2022.
Liu Bin is a leader in the field of organic functional materials, who has been well-recognised for her contributions in polymer chemistry and applications of organic nanomaterials for biomedical research, environmental monitoring and energy devices. She is named among the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds and the Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate. She is a prolific researcher with over 450 publications and holds 30 patents with 16 of them licensed to different companies in US, UK, and Asia.
Sustainability Research at the National University of Singapore
Bin LIU
Abstract
Today, humanity faces the consequences of two centuries of exponential economic growth powered by fossil fuels – climate change, environmental degradation, and the combined effects of ever-increasing energy demand and diminishing fossil fuel reserves. There is a clear and urgent demand for scientific breakthroughs to mitigate these issues by replacing fossil fuels, particularly coal and oil, with sustainable green fuels. In this regard, carbon capture, utilization and storage, and hydrogen economy have emerged as critical topics to develop practical solutions. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the NUS sustainability research with special focus on the research activities of NUS Green Energy Program and the Hydrogen Centre for Innovations.