Prof. GU Hai’s Project Awarded Funding in Second Round One-off CRF COVID-19 and NIR Research Exercises

Newsletter Apr 2022

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Prof. GU Hai’s Project Awarded Funding in Second Round One-off CRF COVID-19 and NIR Research Exercises

Prof. Guo Hai’s project titled “Is the Usual Social Distance Sufficient to Avoid Airborne Infection of Expiratory Droplets in Indoor Environments?” has successfully received a funding of HK$4,703,090 from the second round one-off CRF COVID-19 and Novel Infectious Diseases (NIR) Research Exercises.

With the mission of contributing to the control of respiratory infectious diseases, starting from Jun 2022 till Jun 2025, systematic, multidisciplinary experimental, theoretical and modelling approaches will be used to explore the proper social distancing in various indoor environments.

A brief introduction of the team members and their duties are as follows.

https://www.polyu.edu.hk/cee/news-and-events/news/2022/20220106_news_profguohai/

Team Member	Role	Expertise	Duty
	PC	Emissions and sources of air pollutants indoors; Sampling method development	Overall management for smooth execution
	Co-PI	Microbial ecosystem and bioinformatics; RT-qPCR analysis	Microbiological studies
	Co-PI	Fine particle characterization; Instrumentation and control	Design and carrying -out of experiments
	Co-PI	Modelling and design of micro/nano systems; Computational fluid dynamics simulation	Model development and application