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New Joiner - Dr Tong Haijie

Dr Tong Haijie - Research Assistant Professor   Dr Tong received his PhD degree in Physical Chemistry from Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2011. From 2009 to 2010, he studied in Bristol University as a Joint PhD student with the government scholarship of CSC. After graduation, he joined the Department of Chemistry at University of Cambridge as a PDRA (2012-2014). Then he moved to Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) in Germany as a research scientist (2014-2016) and team leader (2017-2020).   Dr Tong and co-workers have explored the multiphase chemistry of ambient particulate matter and laboratory-generated secondary organic aerosols, by using state-of-the-art instruments and kinetic models. Dr Tong has led/participated in several atmospheric field campaigns and laboratory measurement projects on radical chemistry and health effects of biogenic and anthropogenic particles. He has collaborated with various groups in the UK, US and Europe, and has 27 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He serves as reviewer for more than ten scientific journals in the atmospheric and aerosol research fields. Dr Tong has joined us on 21 December 2020.

Secondary School Outreach 2020/21

Distance does not stop us from reaching out to secondary schools! The Department organized virtual and physical activities for the following secondary schools to provide programme admission talk and mini-lectures on civil and environmental engineering in 2020/21.   Baptist Wing Lung Secondary School Cheung Sha Wan Catholic Secondary School Kiangsu-Chekiang College (Shatin) & Shatin Pui Ying College Lingnan Hang Yee Memorial Secondary School Lok Sin Tong Ku Chiu Man Secondary School Queen Elizabeth School Old Students' Association Queen's College Shatin Pui Ying College St Francis Xavier's School, Tsuen Wan TWGHS Lui Yun Choy Memorial College Valtorta College

PolyU Info Day for Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2021

Looking for Taught Postgraduate Programmes related to civil and environmental engineering? Come and join our PolyU Info Day for Taught Postgraduate Programmes 2021!  Info Seminars for MSc in Civil Engineering & MSc in Environmental Management and Engineering Date: 9 Jan 2021 (Sat)  Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm Platform: Zoom Registration link: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/tpginfoday/ (Prior registration is required.) More details of the above programmes can be found at https://www.polyu.edu.hk/cee/study/taught-postgraduate-programmes/.   

CEE Research Scholars Alumni Association (CEE-RSAA)

CEE-RSAA was set up and had its first committee meeting held online on 5 Dec 2020.  Members discussed on issues related to the positioning of CEE-RSAA, cultural construction responsibility, information platforms, long-term working mechanism, etc. and reached a consensus on the medium to long-term goals. It was hoped that all members might work together to serve the association and the wider community.   CEE-RSAA Committee Members: Chairman CHEN Jun (STR, Shanghai) Vice Chairmen CHEN Guangming (STR, Guangzhou) DING Aijun (ENV, Nanjing) LI Zhichun (TRA, Wuhan) ZHAN Jiemin (HYD, Guangzhou) ZHU Honghu (GEO, Nanjing) Members CHONG Dan (TRA, Shanghai) DUAN Yuanfeng (STR, Hangzhou) FU Yufang (STR, Beijing) GUO Anxin (STR, Harbin) HUANG Yu (ENV, Xi’an) LU Xinzheng (STR, Beijing) LUO Chunling (ENV, Guangzhou) PEI Huafu (GEO, Dalian) ZENG Cheng (HYD, Nanjing) ZHAN Baojian (ENV, Shenzhen) ZHOU Yaoyu (ENV, Changsha) Secretary WENG Shun (STR, Wuhan)

CEE Scholars’ Work on “A Smarter Radiative Cooler” Recommended by Science Editor’s Choice

Prof. Jian-Guo Dai’s research team, which includes Dr Xiao XUE, Research Fellow of Prof. Dai’s group, focuses on engineering inexpensive coating materials for buildings. It takes advantage of daytime radiative cooling but suppress it in the night when cooling no longer is needed. This is accomplished by widening the emissivity spectrum over the entire mid-infrared range. The strategy also uses common materials for the coatings that are more likely to withstand long-term weathering. Their work was recommended by Science Editor’s Choice. More details can be found at https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6522/twil.   

Best Student Presentation Award

Congratulations to two PhD students, Chang HE and Pin Zhang, for obtaining the “Best Student Presentation Award” during the 24th Annual Conference of HKSTAM 2020 and the 16th Shanghai – Hong Kong Forum on Mechanics and Its Application held on 5 Dec 2020. They are supervised by Dr Zhen-Yu Yin, Associate Professor of CEE.

New Joiner - Dr Chen Qianjie

Dr Chen, Qianjie - Research Assistant Professor Dr. Chen received a B.Sc. in Atmospheric Sciences from Sun Yat-sen University (2011), a M.Sc. in Meteorology, Physical Oceanography and Climate from Utrecht University (2013), and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from University of Washington, Seattle (2017). Before joining us, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2018-2020). Dr. Chen’s research resides in the field of atmospheric chemistry, the objective of which is to elucidate the abundances, sources, and sinks of the chemical species in the atmosphere. With the goal of addressing the chemistry aspects of global warming and air pollution issues facing the human race, Dr. Chen’s research interests include sulfur, nitrogen, and halogen chemistry in the lower atmosphere, and blowing snow in the Arctic. Dr. Chen was the selected Early Career Researcher Profile in the Cryosphere and Atmospheric Chemistry (CATCH) Open Science Workshop (2020), and the selected participant for the Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists (ACCESS XV) (2019). He received the HHMI Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowship from University of Michigan (2018), Utrecht Excellence Scholarships and Buys Ballot Graduate Scholarships from Utrecht University (2011-2013).   Dr Chen has joined us on 7 December 2020.  

New Joiner - Dr Alireza Keramat

Dr Alireza Keramat - Research Assistant Professor   Dr Keramat obtained MSc and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering, majored in Hydraulic Structures, in 2006 and 2011 from Shahid Chamran University and Shahrood University of Technology, respectively. Affiliated as a faculty member in Civil Engineering Department of Jundi-Shapur University of Technology following his graduation, he taught several undergraduate and postgraduate courses and (co-) supervised/advised 14 MSc and 5 PhD students. He was a visiting scholar in Eindhoven University of Technology (2009-2010), visiting faculty member in Tokyo Institute of Technology (2014), Research Associate in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2016-2017) and visiting faculty member in the University of Alberta (2019-2020). His main research interests include: wave propagation, fluid-structure interaction, column separation, defect detection, non-Newtonian fluids, viscoelasticity and buckling in pipelines and pipe networks as well as their mathematical modelling and statistical analysis. Dr Alireza Keramat has joined us on 1 Dec 2020.

Entry Scholarships up to HK$50,000!

The Department has launched a new entry scholarship scheme for outstanding DSE students admitted to our undergraduate programmes via JUPAS in 2021/22. The scholarship amount is up to HK$50,000, which is more than a one-year tuition waiver. For details, please refer to https://www.polyu.edu.hk/cee/study/undergraduate-programmes/jupas-applicants/.

PhD student awarded Student Scholarship

PhD student awarded Student Scholarship A PhD student, Qian, Jing, was awarded the Student Scholarship during the 7th International Symposium on Reliability and Engineering and Risk Management (ISRERM2020). Only three papers were selected for the scholarship, according to the judges based on their presentations. Congratulations!