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KUA HARN WEI

QUALIFICATION

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA

PhD, Building Technology Program. May 2006. Created a new policymaking model to explain the

associated effects of policy tools for promoting sustainable building materials industries and prescribe

policy solutions.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA

Dual Masters in Technology & Policy Program and Civil & Environmental Engineering, August 2002.

Created a technology pathway concept to co-optimize indicators for achieving sustainability in the

construction industry.

National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore

Masters by research, in theoretical physics. August 1998. Created a better model to describe the

unpolarized proton and pion structure functions using an Improved Valon Model.

National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore

Bachelor of Science, with 2nd Upper Class Honours. August 1996. Specialized in theoretical physics.

Proposed a new way of categorizing galaxies in my undergraduate dissertation.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Building, School of Design & Environment,

National University of Singapore, June 2014 – present

o Deputy Head (Research), July 2013 – June 2016

o Assistant Dean, January 2016 - present

Assistant Professor, Department of Building, School of Design & Environment, National

University of Singapore, August 2006 – June 2014

Research Assistant, Department of Nuclear Engineering, School of Engineering, Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, 2001 – 2002

Teaching Assistant, Department of Building, School of Design & Environment, National

University of Singapore, 1999 – 2006

Personal trainer (running and swimming), freelance, 1997 – 1999

Work Address:

Department of Building

School of Design and Environment

National University of Singapore

4 Architecture Drive, SDE1-05-07, S117566

Tel: 65163428

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COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate level modules

1. Freshmen Seminar in Policies for Building Sustainable Cities (FMD1201)

2. Materials Technology (PF2303)

3. Research Methods (PF2105)

4. Environmental Management (PF2401)

5. Total Building Performance (PF4304)

Graduate level modules

1. Climate Change and the Built Environment (BPS5102)

2. Business and the Environment (BX5101)

3. Energy and Ecology (ISD5104)

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES AND SERVICES TO UNIVERSITY Departmental- and School-level 1) Teaching Seminar Organizing Committee, 2007-present 2) Crisis Management Committee, 2008–present 3) Department Master’s Program Task Force, 2009 4) Deputy Program Director, B.Sc. (Project and Facilities Management), 2011 – July 2013 5) Deputy Head of Department (Research), July 2013 – present 6) Member, Organizing Committee, Design for Resilience in Asia: Design Competition and

Symposium, Singapore, 2015-2017 University-level 1) Student representative, Fund-raising Committee, NUS Endowment Fund, 1992-1993 2) Honorary General Secretary, 14th NUS Students’ Union Executive Committee, 1993-1994 3) Co-founder and first Chairman of Fund-raising Committee, NUS Students’ Fund 4) Member, NUS Sports Advisory Committee, 2007-2008. 5) Raised about $1 million for the staff and alumni enrichment programs of NUS Alumni House (by

taking part in the 2008 Ultra Triathlon World Series) 6) Member, Program Management Committee, M.Sc. in Environmental Management

Program, 2009-present 7) Member, 80th Anniversary Celebration Committee, Faculty of Science, 2009 8) Organizer, 40th Anniversary Celebration Committee, SDE, 2009 9) Appointed member of the NUS Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum Building Advisory

Committee, December 2010 10) Resident Fellow, Raffles Hall, 1 July 2012 – present

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RESEARCH INTEREST

My key research interest is in life cycle sustainability assessment and sustainable biochar-based

building materials. Specifically, I create and apply integrated framework for assessing the

sustainability and resilience of building materials’ life cycles. I also create, study and apply novel

building materials from bio-based materials, including biochar.

RESEARCH IMPACT (as of 27 April 2018)

Overall Field Weighted Citation Impact (2012 to >2017): 3.37

Field Weighted Citation Impact (Engineering): 4.21

Field Weighted Citation Impact (Economics, econometrics and finance): 6.71

Field Weighted Citation Impact (Material Science): 8.13

PUBLICATIONS

International refereed journal articles

1) Gupta, S., Kua, H. W., and Pang, S. D., 2018. Biochar-mortar composite: Manufacturing,

evaluation of physical properties and economic viability, Construction and Building Materials, 167, 874-889

2) Gupta, S., Kua, H.W. and Koh, H.J., 2018. Application of biochar from food and wood waste as green admixture for cement mortar. Science of The Total Environment, 619, 419-435.

3) Gupta, S., Kua, H. W., Pang, S. D., 2018. Healing cement mortar by immobilization of bacteria in biochar: An integrated approach of self-healing and carbon sequestration, Cement and Concrete Composites 86, 238-254

4) Gupta, S., Kua, H. W., 2018. Effect of water entrainment by pre-soaked biochar particles on strength and permeability of cement mortar, Construction and Building Materials, 159, 107-125

5) Huang, B., Wang, X., Kua, H., Geng, Y., Bleischwitz, R. and Ren, J., 2018. Construction and demolition waste management in China through the 3R principle. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 129, 36-44.

6) Gupta, S., Kua, H. W., Low, C. Y., 2017. Use of biochar as carbon sequestering additive in cement mortar, Cement and Concrete Composites, 87, 110-129

7) Gupta S., Kua, H. W., Tan, S. Y. C., 2017. Use of biochar-coated polypropylene fibers for carbon sequestration and physical improvement of mortar, Cement and Concrete Composites 83, 171-187

8) Gupta, S., Kua, H. W., Pang, S. D., 2017. Combination of polypropylene fibre and superabsorbent polymer to improve physical properties of cement mortar, Magazine of Concrete Research, 1-15

9) Gupta, S., Pang, S. D., Kua, H. W., 2017. Autonomous healing in concrete by bio-based healing agents–A review, Construction and Building Materials 146, 419-428

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10) Gupta, S., Kua, H. W., 2017. Factors Determining the Potential of Biochar As a Carbon Capturing and Sequestering Construction Material: Critical Review, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering 29 (9), 04017086

11) Kua, H. W., 2017. On life cycle sustainability unified analysis. Journal of Industrial Ecology.

12) Chen, W., Geng, Y., Hong, J., Kua, H. W., Xu, C. and Yu, N., 2017. Life cycle assessment of antibiotic mycelial residues management in China. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 79, 830-838.

13) Zhao, K., Ng, T. S. A., Kua, H. W., Tang, M., 2017. Modeling Environmental Impacts and Risk under Data Uncertainties, IISE Transactions

14) Kua, H. W. and Maghimai, M, 2017. Steel-versus-Concrete Debate Revisited - Global Warming Potential and Embodied Energy Analyses based on an Attributional and Consequential Life Cycle Perspective, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 21 (1), 82-100.

15) Gupta, S and Kua, H. W., 2016. Encapsulation technology and techniques in self-healing concrete, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 28, no. 12.

16) Kalluri, M. B., Kondepudi, S., Kua, H. W., Tham, K. W. and Kamiliaris, A., 2016. Applicability of using time series subsequences to study office plug load appliances, Energy and Buildings, 127, 399-410.

17) Thondlana, G. and Kua, H. W., 2016. Promoting household energy conservation in low-income households through tailored interventions in Grahamstown, South Africa, Journal of Cleaner Production, 131, 327-340.

18) Kua, H. W., Tok, C. T., Ong, B. L. and Suresh, A. S., 2016. “Active” hydroponic greenhouse system to kick-start and augment reforestation program for carbon sequestration – an experimental and theoretical feasibility study, Journal of Cleaner Production, 129, 637-646.

19) Kua, H. W. and Lu, Y., 2016. Environmental impacts of substituting tempered glass with polycarbonate in construction – an attributional and consequential life cycle perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production, 137, 910-921

20) Kua, H.W., 2016. A New Integrated Framework for Stakeholder Involvement in Sustainability Policymaking–A Multidisciplinary Approach. Sustainable Development, 24(5), 281-297.

21) Chelleri, L., Kua H. W., Sanchez, J. P. R., Nahiduzzaman, K. M. and Thondhlana G., 2016. Are People Responsive to a More Sustainable, Decentralized, and User-Driven Management of Urban Metabolism? Sustainability, 8, no. 3, 275.

22) Kua, H. W., 2015. Integrated policies to promote sustainable use of steel slag for construction – a consequential life cycle embodied energy and greenhouse gas emission perspective, Energy and Buildings, 101, 133.

23) Kua, H. W. and Kamath, S., 2014. An attributional and consequential life cycle assessment of substituting concrete with bricks". Journal of Cleaner Production, 81, 190-200.

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24) Gunawansa, A. and Kua, H. W., 2014. A comparison of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies for the construction industries of three coastal territories, Sustainable Development, 22, no. 1, 52-62.

25) Kua, H. W., 2013. The consequences of substituting sand with used copper slag in construction - an embodied energy and global warming potential analysis using life cycle approach and different allocation methods, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 17, no. 6, 869-879.

26) Ng, P. K., Mithraratne, N. and Kua H. W., 2013. Energy analysis of semi-transparent BIPV in Singapore buildings, Energy and Buildings, 66, 274-281.

27) He, H. and Kua, H. W., 2012. Lessons for integrated household energy conservation policy from Singapore's southwest Eco-living Program, Energy Policy, 55, 105-116.

28) Kua, H. W. and Wong C. L., 2012. Analyzing the life cycle greenhouse gas emission and energy consumption of a multi-storied commercial building in Singapore from an extended system boundary perspective, Energy and Buildings, 51, 6-14.

29) Kua, H. W. and Wong C., 2012. Lessons for integrated household energy conservation policies from an intervention study in Singapore, Energy Policy, 47, 49-56.

30) Kua, H. W., 2012. Attributional and consequential life cycle inventory assessment of recycling copper slag as building material in Singapore", Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 35, no. 4, 510-520.

31) Gunawansa, A. and Kua H. W., 2011. Some Key Barriers to Technology Transfer under the Clean Development Mechanism, International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialization, 10, no. 1, 63-80.

32) Kua, H. W., 2010. CSdR Singapore - applying creative governance concept to corporate sustainability through co-generative action research, International Journal of Social Policy Research and Development, 1, no. 2, 26-35.

33) Kua, H. W. and Gunawansa, A, 2010. A Multi-scale Analysis of Possible Conflicts between Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Initiatives in the Building Industry and Human Settlement". Progress in Industrial Ecology, 7, no. 3, 219-238.

34) Sheikh, M. A., Kua, H. W. and Lee, S. E., 2010. A total building performance approach to evaluating building acoustics performance, Architectural Science Review, 53, no. 2, 213-223.

35) Gunawansa, A. and Kua, H. W., 2010. A Review of Some Key Climate Change Legislations and Policies: Lessons for Singapore's Construction Industry, Progress in Industrial Ecology, 71, no. 1, 75-91.

36) Kua, H. W., 2010. Improving the Clean Development Mechanism with Sustainability-rating and Rewarding System, Progress in Industrial Ecology, 7, no. 1, 35-51.

37) Kua, H. W., 2009. Climate Change Must Be Tackled Within the Framework of Sustainability". Innovation Magazine - The Magazine of Research & Technology, 12, no. 1, 30-32.

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38) Kua, H. W., 2007. Information Flow And Its Significance In Coherently Integrated Policymaking For Promoting Energy Efficiency, Environmental Science & Technology, 41, no. 9, 3047-3054.

39) Kua, H. W. and Ashford, N., 2004. Co-optimization through increasing Willingness, Opportunity, and Capacity: A Generalizable Concept of Appropriate Technology Transfer, International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialization, 3, no. 3, 324-334.

40) Kua, H. W. and Lee, S. E., 2002. Demonstration intelligent building - A methodology for the promotion of total sustainability in the built environment, Building and Environment, 37, no. 3, 231-240.

41) Kua, H. W., Kwek, L. C. and Oh, C. H., 1999. Proton and Pion Structure Functions in the Improved Valon Model, Physical Review D, no. 59, 074025.

Editorials or comments in journal

42) Gloria, T., Guinée, J., Kua, H. W., Singh, B., Lifset, R., 2018. Charting the Future of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Special Issue, journal of Industrial Ecology, 21 (6), 1449-1453

43) Keitsch M. M., Kua, H. W., and Skjerven, A., 2016. Special issue: the cultural dimension of resilience and sustainability, Sustainable Development 24 (5), 273-274

44) Sarkis, J., Vazquez-Brust, D., de Bruijn, T., Fischer, K., Franco-García M., Kamolsiripichaiporn S., Kua H. W., Lehmann M. and Kuppusamy, I., 2015. Building a Sustainable Future through the Greening of Industry and its Networks: Knowledge Development and Sharing, Journal of Cleaner Production, 98, 8-16

45) Kua, H. W. and Gunawansa, A., eds., Sustainable Development. 21, no. 3 (Special Issue on Integrated Sustainability Policy and Governance Framework, United Kingdom), 2013.

46) Kua, H. W., 2010. Expanding resource availability by mining and avoiding landfills – a need for an integrated technology and policy approach". Regional Development Dialogue, 31, no. 2, 182-183.

47) Kua, H. W. and Sing, T. F., eds., International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialization. 10, no. 1 (Special Issue on Technology Transfer within the Post-Kyoto Protocol Policy Framework) (Switzerland), 2011.

48) Kua, H. W. and Gunawansa, A., eds., Progress in Industrial Ecology. 7, no. 1 (Special Issue on Policy and legislative architecture to deal with climate change and sustainable development in a post-Kyoto world) (United Kingdom), 2010.

49) Gunawansa, A. and Kua, H. W., 2009. Teaching Sustainable Development to Freshmen, CDTL Brief, 12, no. 5.

50) Kua, H. W., 2007. Addressing the Southeast Asia Haze Problem with Policy Integration. Business Strategy and the Environment, 316-317. New Jersey: Wiley InterScience, 2007.

Conference papers 51) Kua, H. W., 2016. Toward A More Integrated and Holistic Assessment Framework for Life

Cycle Modelling – Life Cycle Sustainability Unified Analysis". 22nd Annual International Sustainable Development Research Society Conference (Lisbon, Portugal)

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52) Kua, H. W., 2014. A Dynamic, Integrated Stakeholder Framework for Coherent Sustainability Policymaking from an Industrial Ecological, Sociological and Behavioral Science Perspective. 20th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference: Resilience – The New Research Frontier (18 - 20 Jun 2014, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)

53) Chung, K. H. J. and Kua, H. W., 2016. Development of a Collaborative Briefing Approach to Support Stakeholder Engagement in Construction Briefing, Proceeding of the CIB World Building Congress 2016, 274-284. Tampere: Tampere University of Technology (Plenary paper)

54) Chung, K. H. J. and Kua H. W., 2016. Development of a framework to achieve regenerative sustainability through construction briefing – the cases of Singapore and Hong Kong. The 22nd International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) Conference (Plenary paper) (13 - 15 Jul 2016, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Rectorate, Lisbon.

55) Kua, H. W. and Wong C. L., 2013. Analyzing the life cycle greenhouse gas emission and energy consumption of a multi-storied commercial building in Singapore from an extended system boundary perspective. Just Transitions: A Global Perspective (2013). Stellenbosch: International Sustainable Development Research Society. (19th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference, 1 - 3 Jul 2013, Spier, Stellenbosch, South Africa)

56) Ong, B. L., Kua H. W. and Teo C. J., 2012. Green Chimney Buildings: Architecture as Carbon Sequestration Structures". Tropics 2050. SDE, NUS: Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture. (iNTA 2012: 4th International Network for Tropical Architecture Conference, 12 - 14 Dec 2012, SDE, NUS, Singapore) (Won best paper award for practice track).

57) Maghimai, M. and Kua H. W., 2012. Application of industrial ecology concepts to the steel consumption in Singapore. First International Conference on Performance-based and Life-cycle Structural Engineering, 2136-2144. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Polytechnic University. (First International Conference on Performance-based and Life-cycle Structural Engineering, 5 - 7 Dec 2012, Kowloon, Hong Kong)

58) He, H and Kua H. W., 2012. Integrated Energy Conservation Policies from the Ground Up: lessons from the Eco-living Program of Singapore’s South West District. Proceedings: Global Research Forum on Sustainable Consumption and Production Workshop. Boston: GRF-SPaC. (Global Research Forum on Sustainable Consumption and Production Workshop, 13 - 16 Jun 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

59) Kua, H. W., 2012. Using Industrial Ecology to Implement Sustainable Consumption and Re-

consumption Strategies in the Jurong Lake District and Jurong Gateway of Singapore – a

Multi-pronged Approach Leading to Actual District Policy Innovation". Forum on Science,

Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development (Plenary paper) (11 - 13 Jun

2012, PUC Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (Video of my presentation is available here: h t t p :

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VI-1 2807.html).

60) Kua, H. W. and Wong C., 2010. Application of Sustainability Science Concepts to Policy

Strategies for Sustainable Built Environment: A Reflection on the Role of Human Volition

Complexity in Affecting Household Energy and Water Consumption in Singapore. 16th

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Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference, ed. Kadoorie

Institute: 270-305. Kowloon: Kadoorie Institute. (16th Annual International Sustainable

Development Research Conference, 30 May - 1 Jun 2010, MTR, Kowloon, Hong Kong)

61) Lutchmeeduth, B. H., Kua, H. W., Gunawansa, A. and Piana, A., 2010. Small Islands’

Approach To Climate Change Mitigation And Adaptation – The Cases Of Mauritius And

Singapore. Sustainable Green Intelligent Innovative Island, International Conference

(online). Mauritius: University of Mauritius. (Sustainable Green Intelligent Innovative

Island, International Conference, 15 - 19 Feb 2010, Mauritius)

62) Gunawansa, A. and Kua H. W., 2009. Lessons on climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. CIB W113 Papers on Law and Dispute Resolution, ed. RICS: 1161-1174. Cape Town: RICS. (COBRA2009, 10 - 11 Sep 2009, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

63) Kua, H. W., Teo, C. J. and Ong, B. L., 2009. Carbon sequestration in a green chimney: enhanced carbon dioxide removal by mung beans under high concentrations. Taking up the Global Challenge: 187-188. Utrecht: International Sustainable Development Research Society. (15th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference, 5 - 7 Jul 2009, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands).

64) Kua, H. W. and Gunawansa A., 2009. A Multi-scale Analysis of Possible Conflicts between Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Initiatives. 15th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference (2009): 134. Utrecht: International Sustainable Development Research Society. (15th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference, 5 - 7 Jul 2009, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands)

65) Kua, H. W., 2009. Corporate Sustainable-developmental Responsibility (CSdR)". IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science (2009): P43.02. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen. (Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions, 10 - 12 Mar 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark)

66) Kua, H. W., Fernandez J and Kirchain R, 2005. Understanding Associated Effects of Policy Tools in Promoting Industrial Ecology in the Construction Industry: Case Studies of European Virgin Material Tax and US Forest Management Regulations. Proceeding of the 11th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference (2005). Helsinki: University of Tampere. (11th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference, 6 - 8 Jun 2005, Helsinki, Finland).

67) Kua, H. W., 2010. 3 models of education for sustainable development – the “specialized”, the “integrated” and the “participatory". Greening the Industry Network (13 - 16 Jun 2010, Coex center, Seoul, South Korea)

68) Kua, H. W., 2009. Evaluating Sustainable Building and Urban Development Strategies through the Lens of Sustainability Science". 5th Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environmental Systems (28 Sep - 3 Oct 2009, Dubrovnik, Croatia)

69) Kua, H. W., 2008. Beyond Gold: Improving the Clean Development Mechanism and Gold Standard with Sustainability-rating. 14th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference (21 - 23 Sep 2008, New Delhi, India)

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70) Gunawansa, A. and Kua H. W., 2008. A Cross-country Review of Key Climate Change Legislations and Policies and the Sustainability Lessons for Singapore's Construction Industry". 14th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference 2008 (21 - 23 Sep 2008, New Delhi, India)

71) Kua, H. W., 2007. Improved Clean Development Mechanism And Joint Implementation To Promote Wholistic Sustainable Development – An Integrated Policy And Methodology For International Collaboration". World Energy Congress (11 - 19 Nov 2007, Rome, Italy)

72) Kua, H. W., 2006. The Concept of “Policy Psychology” as a Social Psychology Perspective on Policy Analysis and Stakeholder Communication for Sustainability". Greening the Industry Network Annual Meeting ( 2 - 5 Jul 2006, City Hall, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom)

73) Kua, H. W., Fernandez J. and Ochsendorf J., 2006. Coherent Policymaking Frame: A Model for Effective Policymaking and Communication for Sustainability. Greening the Industry Network Annual Meeting ( 2 - 5 Jul 2006, City Hall, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom)

74) Kua, H. W. and Fernandez J., 2006. Design of Effective Policies for the Promotion of Sustainable Construction Materials. Ecologies of Construction (Invited paper) (20 - 21 Mar 2006, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) (Presentation was invited by my then PhD advisor John Fernandez.).

75) Kua, H. W. and Ashford N., 2002. Co-optimizing for sustainability as a guiding principle for sustainable construction. Alliance for Global Sustainability-World Student Community Conference (16 - 19 Mar 2002, San Jose, Costa Rica)

Poster presentation

76) Kua, H. W., Fernandez, J. and Ashford, N., 2005. Addressing Pollution Prevention and Waste Minimization in Substitute Fuel Use by Cement Plants in the United Kingdom and United States (THIRD PRIZE, pollution prevention and sustainable development category)". Air and Waste Management Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition (21 - 24 Jun 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States)

77) Kua, H. W., Fernandez, J. and Ashford, N., 2005. A Methodology for Coherent Policy Planning for Better Sustainability in the Use of Virgin Material Tax and Waste Recycling Strategies (BEST PAPER/POSTER, pollution prevention and sustainable development category). Air and Waste Management Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition (21 - 24 Jun 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States)

78) Kua, H. W., Fernandez, J and Kirchain, R., 2005. Understanding Associated Effects of Policy Tools in Promoting Industrial Ecology in the Construction Industry: Case Studies of European Virgin Material Tax and US Forest Management Regulations (THIRD PRIZE, outstanding poster award)". International Society for Industrial Ecology Conference (12 - 15 Jun 2005, Stockholm, Sweden)

79) Kua, H. W., Fernandez, J. and Kirchain, R., 2004. Optimization of Material Flow to Achieve Maximum Sustainability in the Wood Industry of the United States". Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology ( 1 - 6 Aug 2004, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom)

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Editorials in book

80) Lye, I. L. H., Savage, V. R., Kua, H. W., Chou, L. M. and Tan, P.Y., eds., Sustainability Matters: Environmental and Climate Changes in Asia, Singapore: World Scientific, 2015. 555.

81) Lye, I. L. H., Savage, V. R., Chou, L. M., Yu, L. E. and Kua, H. W., eds., Sustainability Matters: Asia's Energy Concerns, Green Policies and Environmental Advocacy, Singapore: Singapore World Scientific, 2014. 1,108.

82) Lye, I. L. H., Savage, V. R., Chou, L. M., Yu, L. E. and Kua, H. W., eds., Sustainability Matters: Asia's Green Challenges, Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. 543.

83) Lye, I. L. H., Chou, L. M., Chia, A., Gunawansa, A. and Kua, H. W., eds., Sustainability Matters Challenges and Opportunities in Environmental Management in Asia, Singapore: Pearson, 2011. 571

Chapters in book

84) Tun, T. T. and Kua, H. W., 2015. Integrated Policy Design Through Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment, In Sustainability Matters: Environmental and Climate Changes in Asia, 5 ed., World Scientific, 2015.

85) Savage, V. R., Lye I. L. H., Kua H. W., Chou L. M. and Tan P.Y., 2015. Introduction - Environmental and climate changes in Asia: Lessons in history and game changers in economics, politics and scientific research". In Sustainability Matters: Environmental and Climate Changes in Asia, ed. Lye Lin Heng, Victor R Savage, Kua Harn Wei, Chou Loke-Ming, Tan Puay-Yok. Singapore: World Scientific.

86) Kua, H. W., 2014. Action research for coherently integrated sustainability policy design and implementation. In Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Environmental Studies. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2014. 16 pp.

87) Kumari, A. and Kua, H. W., 2014. Lessons for integrated district-level food waste recycling programs: a review of eight international cases. In Sustainability Matters: Asia's Green Challenges, ed. L H Lye, V Savage, L M Chou, L Yu, H W Kua, 139-156. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2014. 18 pp.

88) Savage, V. R., Lye I. L. H., Chou, L. M., Yu, L. E. and Kua, H. W., 2014. Transboundary environmental challenges: Interconnectivity between national responsibility, development processes and the regional commons. In Sustainability Matters: Asia's Energy Concerns Green Policies and Environmental Advocacy. Singapore: Singapore World Scientific, 2014.

89) Lye, I. L. H., Savage, V. R., Chou, L. M, Yu, L. E. and Kua, H. W., 2013. Managing development as a sustainable proposition. In Sustainability Matters: Asia's Green Challenges, ed. Lye LH, Savage VR, Chou LM, Yu LYE, Kua HW, xxxiii-xlix. Singapore: World Scientific, 2013.

90) Chua, B. H. and Kua, H. W., 2013. Life Cycle Assessment of an Urban Waste Refinery". In Sustainability Matters: Asia's Energy Policies, Green Concerns, and Environmental Advocacy, ed. Savage V., Lye L. H., Chou L. M., Yu L., Kua H. W., World Scientific Publishing, 2013. 20 pp.

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91) Kua, H. W., 2012. Integrated sustainability policies for China’s cement industry – a case study approach. In Environmental and Climate Change in Asia: Ecological Footprints and Green Prospects, ed. V. Savage, 219-238. Singapore: FT Press, 2012. 19 pp.

92) Kua, H. W. and Koh, Y. Y. S., 2011. Sustainability Science Integrated Policies Promoting Interaction-Based Building Design Concept as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for Singapore and Beyond. In Green Growth: Managing the Transition to Sustainable Economy, ed. Vazqeuz D. and Sarkis J., 65-85. New York: Springer, 2011. 10 pp.

93) Lye, I. L. H., Chia, A., Chou, L. M., Gunawansa, A. and Kua, H. W., 2011. Introduction: Sustainability matters - challenges and opportunities in environmental management in Asia". In Sustainability Matters - Challenges and Opportunities in Environmental Management in Asia, ed. Lye Lin-Heng, Chou Loke-Ming, Audrey Chia, Asanga Gunawansa, Kua Harn-Wei, xxix-xxxviii. Singapore: Pearson, 2011. 1 pp. (Asia)

94) Cheng, Y. S. and Kua, H. W., 2011. An Environmental Management System in a Manufacturing Plant in Singapore: Challenges and Solutions". In Sustainability Matters: Challenges and Opportunities in Environmental Management in Asia, ed. Lye, L.H. Chou, L.M, Chia, A., Gunawansa. A, Kua, H.W., 331-356. Singapore: Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2011. 26 pp.

95) Kua, H. W. and Gunawansa, A., 2010. An integrated approach to a successor of Kyoto Protocol. In Climate Change, ed. Siddhartha P. Saikia. New Delhi: International Book Distributors, 2010. 24 pp.

96) Piana, V. and Kua, H. W., 2009. Common but Differentiated Responsibilities: A Mosaic Strategy for Copenhagen Agreement and Beyond. In Innovative Economic Policies for Climate Change Mitigation, ed. Piana et al., 209-222. Rome: Economic Web Institute, 2009. 14 pp.

97) Piana, V. and Kua, H. W., 2009. Interactive Government: Leadership, Commitment, Communication and Reputation. In Innovative Economic Policies for Climate Change Mitigation, ed. Piana V et al., 177-186. Rome: Economic Web Institute, 2009. 10 pp.

98) Kua, H. W., 2009. Corporate Sustainable-developmental Responsibility (CSdR) – A Creative Governance Approach to Change the Organizational Routines. In Innovative Economic Policies for Climate Change Mitigation, ed. Piana V et al., 101-112. Rome: Economic Web Institute, 2009. 12 pp.

99) Fernandez, J. and Kua H. W., 2005. Biopolymers and Biocomposites, including Natural Fibers. In Material Architecture: Emergent Materials for Innovative Buildings and Ecological Construction, 258-262. New York: Architectural Press, 2005. 5 pp. (Co-authored this section with John Fernandez, who is the main author of this book. It has been used for teaching in MIT (e.g. 4.461), CUNY (ARCH3631), UBC (Material Studio by Pechet) and KTH (Studio#9 Bridging Territories).

Theses and dissertations

100) Kua, H. W., The Design of Effective Policies for the Promotion of Sustainable Construction

Materials. PhD (Building Technology) diss., MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Singapore.

2006. 300 pp.

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101) Kua, H. W., 2002. Co-optimization for Sustainability as a Guiding Principle for Construction

technology and Policy. Dual Masters Degree in Technology & Policy and Civil Engineering

thesis, MIT, Cambridge/ Massachusetts, United States. 187 pp.

102) Kua, H. W., 1999. Unpolarized Structure Function and the Improved Valon Model. Master

of Science (Physics) thesis, National University of Singapore, Singapore. 1999. 150 pp.

Research reports

103) Bodek, K., Boonyongmaneerat, Y., Deora, T., Donnelly, K., Hrabar, A., Kua, H. W. and Lewis, M., Application of Technology in Energy and the Environment, USA, MIT, United States, 2005, 20 pp. (Short study report).

104) Kua, H. W., Hands-on Study of Sustainable and Natural Building Materials for

Affordable Housing in Tanzania. MIT/Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2002, 15 pp.. (Project report for award benefactor, prepared for MIT Carroll Wilson Foundation, Center for Entreprenuership).

105) Kua, H. W. and Kazimi, M., Comparison of Energy Technologies In China, Japan And

Taiwan: A Multi-Methodological Approach. MIT/Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 2001, 35 pp. (Research project report, prepared for MIT Department of Nuclear Engineering, Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems).

106) Kua, H. W., Ashford, N. and Hafkamp, W., Flexible, Modular Manufactured Construction, Case Study for the "Pathways Project". MIT, United States, 2001, 15 pp. (Internal research report generated from Master thesis, prepared for MIT Centre for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development).

107) Kua, H. W., Corporate Sustainable-developmental Responsibility (CSdR): Corporate Fulfilling Responsible Citizenship for a Sustainable World, Research project report. Singapore: Singapore Institute for International Affaris, 2010. 53 pp. (This project report was prepared for the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies and Asia-Pacific Forum for Environment and Development (the latter co-funded this project).).

108) Ashford, N., Hafkamp, W., Prakke, F, Vergragt, P., Bakker, A., Kemp, R., Kua, H. W., Quist, J., B ter Weel and G Zwetsloot, Pathways to Sustainable Industrial Transformations: Co-optimizing Competitiveness, Employment and Environment. White Paper. Amsterdam: Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning & the Environment, 2001. 10 pp. (This is a White Paper for the government of the Netherlands. The complete list of contributors' names can be seen from the reference list of this article http://www.tellus.org/publications/files/TransitionManagementforSustainableMo.pdf).

109) Gunawansa, A., Lutchmeeduth, B., Kua, H. W. and Piana, V., 2011. Approaches to climate change mitigation and adaptaton - the cases of Mauritius and Singapore". University of Mauritius Research Journal, 1-8. Moka: University of Mauritius, 2011. (This peer-reviewed journal is started and managed by the University of Mauritius, but its panel of reviewers are international.).

110) Kua, H. W., 2011. Addressing a missing element in the Toledo Declaration with industrial ecology. Rome: Economic Web Institute, 2011. (This is an invited and peer-reviewed online article. It can be found at http://www.economicswebinstitute.org/essays/toledoindustrialecology.htm).

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111) Kua, H. W., 2008. Jatropha's potential in promoting sustainable development". Clean Tech Magazine. London: Cleantech Investor. (This is a non-refereed trade magazine. Full article can be seen here http://www.cleantechinvestor.com/portal/bioenergy/1022-jatrophas-potential-in-promoting-sus tainable-development.html).

112) Kua, H. W., 2003. The Job Creation Potential of Environmental Policies. Vision (journal of the World Student Community for Sustainable Development). Zurich: World Student Community for Sustainable Development, 2003. (This article was first published as a peer-reviewed article in an online journal. It has been moved to a blog site: http://wscsd.org/blog/2003/11/18/the-job-creation-potential-of-environmental-policies/).

INTERVIEWS AND FEATURES IN MASS MEDIA (sports-related interviews are not included)

1) “New varsity to get research head start”, Straits Times, May 23, 2009

2) “Experts say SMEs should turn to the region for green opportunities”, Channel News Asia, June 15,

2009

3) “Towards a pedestrian-friendly nation”, My Paper, September 9, 2009

4) “Will this prevent future floods? Raised platforms can help, but building them is costly”, The New Paper, June 23, 2010

5) “Recycling Week to focus on e-waste disposal”, the Straits Times, September 4, 2010

6) “Raising a solution to floods”, The New Paper, September 13, 2010

7) “Recycling set to get easier for residents – more frequent waste collection and more bins”, The Sunday Times, October 24, 2010

8) “HDB lift may take you up to a farm”, The New Paper, November 15, 2010

9) “Singapore to study threat of rising sea levels”, The Straits Times, November 30, 2010.

10) “Vertical farms’ make building greener”, The Straits Times, July 1, 2011.

11) Invited by Channel News Asia to contribute in a live show entitled “Bridging Asia – the Singapore debates”, on the motion of “Asia's growth must come at the cost of its environment”, February 2012 [unable to attend]

12) “Carbon dioxide not sole pollutant”, The Straits Times, July 4, 2012.

13) “本地学者：简单直观引导， 有效推行环保”, Lianhe Zaobao, July 4, 2012.

14) “Cut food waste, redistribute extra food, say experts”, The Straits Times, July 21, 2012.

15) Featured in the Channel News Asia’s documentary’s Cool Red Dot as the person behind the ECO Living program. Reports on this residential energy conservation project was also featured in Lian He Zao Bao and presented at the UN Sustainable Development Conference (RIO+20). The Chinese version was shown over Channel 8 at 10.30pm on 1 and 8 September 2012.

16) “More Punggol flats to go solar”, The Straits Times, January 25, 2013.

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17) “Singapore will be able to cope with rising global sea levels: experts”, TODAY, August 21, 2013.

18) “Homes of the future: Building designs that adapt to its environment”, Channel News Asia, 17 May,

2015.

19) “Tackling excessive plastic bag use: no levy in the works”, Straits Times, 7 March 2018

20) “New green method to strengthen buildings”, Straits Times, 13 April 2018

RESEARCH GRANTS

1) Legislative and Policy Initiatives for Green House Gas (GHG) Reductions and their Impact on the

Construction Industry, Co-Principal Investigator, granted by Ministry of Education Academic

Research Fund (tier-1).

2) Corporate Sustainable-Developmental Responsibility (CSdR) - Corporate Fulfilling Responsible

Citizenship for a Sustainable World, Principal Investigator, granted by Ministry of Education

Academic Research Fund (tier-1).

3) Green Chimneys – Localized Carbon Sequestration, Principal Investigator, granted by Ministry of

Education Academic Research Fund (tier-1).

4) Developing a Carbon Index for Construction Projects, Co-Principal Investigator granted the

Ministry of National Development Research Fund.

5) Urban Metabolism (Industrial Ecology) Studies, Principal Investigator, granted by Ministry of

National Development Research Fund.

6) Landscape Guidelines and Applications of Green Plot Ratio, Research Collaborator, granted by

Ministry of National Development Research Fund.

7) Urban Transport Modeling in High Density Environments Project, Research Collaborator, granted

by Ministry of National Development Research Fund.

8) Sustainability Impacts of Material Choice and Substitution in the Building Industry – a streamlined

and consequence-based approach using life cycle assessment, Principal Investigator, granted by

Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund (tier-1).

9) Mission-oriented system model for megacity sustainability. Co-Principal Investigator; this is

funded by the Singapore National Research Foundation CREATE E2S2 (Energy and Environmental

Sustainability Solutions for Megacities) program, and is a collaboration between Shanghai Jiao

Tong University and NUS.

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10) Multi-functional systems for low volume high value carbon capture and utilization, Principal

Investigator, granted by Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund (tier-1).

11) As part of a team, I was awarded Brown International Advanced Research Institute (BIARI) Alumni

Seed Fund to implement the household energy intervention program that I created in 6 different

countries – Spain, Colombia, South Africa, Saint Lucia, Saudi Arabia and Singapore. Award is from

November 2013 to July 2014. I am one of the Principal Investigators.

12) Social Metering: Combining Real-Time Energy Metering with Social Eco-Feedback and Correlating

its Effectiveness with “RICCOW”, Principal Investigator, granted by Ministry of Education

Academic Research Fund (tier-1)

13) Biochar-based building materials: a research program on developing bio-based “carbon smart”

materials that capture, store and utilize carbon dioxide, Principal Investigator, granted by

Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund (tier-1)

14) Development of Heat Transfer Mechanism, Heat Transfer Simulation Model and “Cool” “Clean”

Car Nano Coating for Cleaner & Greener Automotives Applications. External funding from private

company. Principal Investigator.

15) Minimizing construction wastes in Singapore: a whole-of-life investigation, MOE AcRF tier-2.

Principal Investigator.

16) Innovative Hybrid Mass Timber Construction Systems for High-density Urban Environment in the

Tropics. MNDRF DfMA & BIM Grant Call. Co-Principal Investigator.

17) Social Metering: Combining Real-Time Energy Metering with Social Eco-Feedback and Correlating

its Effectiveness with “RICCOW”, MOE AcRF tier-1. Principal Investigator.

18) Construction of a Non-Residential Whole-Life Building Cost Index for Singapore, Humanities and

Social Science Research Fund. Principal Investigator.

19) Smart Solutions Promoting Behavior Driven Energy Efficiency: A Personality-based Energy

Management System, NRF GBIC Research Fund. Co-Principal Investigator.

20) Additive manufacturing of durable and water-resistant building structures and façade

components using novel sustainable building materials, Intra-CREATE Strategic Seed Fund.

Principal Investigator (representing NUS and CREATE E2S2)

21) Customization and Application of Life Cycle Characterisation Factors for Evaluating the Impacts

of Biochar-based Building Materials using the SIMPASS approach, MOE AcRF tier-1. Principal

Investigator.

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ACADEMIC AWARDS

Prizes

1) Travel Award to Japan, for the Friendship Program for the 21st Century (1993)

2) NUS Science Dean’s list (1993-1994)

3) British Petroleum Science Gold Award (1994)

4) NUS Physics Department Best Laboratory Demonstrator (at Department Open House, 1998)

5) NUS Postgraduate Research Scholarship (1997, 1998, 1999)

6) Tan Kah Kee Foundation (Singapore) Postgraduate Scholarship (2000); awarded for academic and community service records

7) Kann-Ramussen Foundation Scholarship (awarded through MIT Department of Nuclear Science & Engineering, 2001)

8) Carroll L. Wilson Award (2001); administered by the MIT Entrepreneurship Center to support development and research work in Tanzania

9) MIT Industrial Liaison Program Scholarship (2001)

10) MIT Martin Family Society of Fellowship for Sustainability, 2002-2003

11) NUS Oversea Graduate Scholarship (2002-2005)

12) Air & Waste Management Association Scholarship (2005)

13) International Society of Industrial Ecology Conference Scholarship (2005)

14) 3rd Prize, Outstanding Student Poster Award, International Society of Industrial Ecology Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 12-16 June 2005

15) 1st Prize, Sustainable Development/Pollution Prevention Student Paper/Poster Competition, 98th Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Air & Waste Management Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 21-24 June 2005 (first paper submitted for this conference)

16) 3rd Prize, Sustainable Development/Pollution Prevention Student Paper/Poster Competition, 98th Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Air & Waste Management Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 21-24 June 2005 (second paper submitted for this conference). The first person ever to win two awards with two different papers in one conference.

17) Asia-Pacific Forum for Environment and Development (APFED) Showcase Project Fund, United Nations Environmental Program (2006). Won with a Singapore-based non-governmental organization, Climate Change Organization

18) Clean and Green Singapore Best Community Award 2007 (won through the Environment and Health Functional Committee of South West CDC, of which I am an active community member)

19) Clean and Green Singapore Best Community Award 2008 (won through the Environment and Health Functional Committee of South West CDC, of which I am an active community member)

20) President Award for the Environment 2008 (won through the Environment and Health Functional Committee of South West CDC, of which I am an active community member)

21) ASEAN Environmentally Sustainable Cities Award 2008 (won through the Environment and Health Functional Committee of South West CDC, of which I am an active community member)

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22) Awarded a United States Provisional Patent, No. 61/222,961, title: “Green Chimney for Localized Carbon Sequestration”, filing date: 3 July 2009, ref: 09174N-US/PRV. A patent was filed on 5 July 2010, and published on 6 January 2011, WIPO Patent Application WO/2011/002419.

23) Clean and Green Singapore Best Community Award 2009 (won through the Environment and Health Functional Committee of South West CDC, of which I am an active community member)

24) Nominated by IGES, for the International Year of Shelters for the Homeless (IYSH) Memorial Prize 2010

25) Clean and Green Singapore Best Community Award 2010 (won through the Environment and Health Functional Committee of South West CDC, of which I am an active community member)

26) School Teaching Excellence Award 2010/2011, School of Design & Environment, National

University of Singapore.

27) People’s Association (PA) Five-Year Appreciation Award 2011

28) Clean and Green Singapore Best Community Award 2011 (won through the Sustainable Environment Functional Committee of South West CDC, of which I am one of its sub-committees’ chairmen)

29) ASEAN Environmentally Sustainable Cities Award 2011 (won through the Sustainable Environment Functional Committee of South West CDC, of which I am one of its sub-committees’ chairmen)

30) Finalist, Communities in Bloom International Challenge, organized by the Canada-based non-governmental organization Communities in Bloom. This is a team effort under the Environmental Sustainable Functional Committee of Southwest CDC. This is a prestigious award that recognizes community’s efforts in environmental and heritage initiatives, and participating projects have to compete with others around the world.

31) Clean and Green Singapore Awards 2012. This is a team award won through the Sustainable Environment Functional Committee of South West CDC, of which I am one of its sub-committees’ chairmen.

32) Winner, Outstanding Achievement Award, Special Award for the Green Community Program, Communities in Bloom International Challenge, which is organized by the Canada-based non-governmental organization Communities in Bloom. This is a team effort under the Environmental Sustainable Functional Committee of Southwest CDC, of which I am one of its sub-committees’ chairmen.

33) Best Paper in Practice Track, 4th international Network for Tropical Architecture (iNTA) Conference, 12-13 December 2012, Singapore. Won this award jointly with Dr. Ong Boon Lay and Dr. Teo Chiang Juay.

34) School Teaching Excellence Award 2011/2012, School of Design & Environment, National University of Singapore.

35) Annual Teaching Excellence Award, NUS, 2011/2012

36) Long Service Award (15 years), Department of Building, SDE, NUS, 2013

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37) Selected by Brown University to attend a 2-week enrichment program at Brown International

Advanced Research Institute (BIARI), on “Connections and Flows: Water, Energy and Digital

Information in the Global South”, 8-22 June 2013.

38) Appointed as a Senior Expert by the Asia-Pacific Chief Executive Officer (APCEO) Association in

2013. This means that I may be invited by APCEO to deliver speeches on appropriate topics in the

future.

39) Clean and Green Singapore Best Community Award 2013 (won through the Environment and

Health Functional Committee of South West CDC, of which I am an active community member)

40) School Teaching Excellence Award 2012/2013, School of Design & Environment, National

University of Singapore.

41) Selected as a World Cities Summit (WCS) Young Leader, for a 3-year period, beginning May 2014.

Nominee will attend the WCS Mayors’ Forum to be held annually in Singapore.

42) Selected for Bellagio Centre Academic Writing Residence Fellowship by Rockefeller Foundation,

November 2014 (did not attend due to medical reason)

43) School Teaching Excellence Award 2013/2014, School of Design & Environment, National

University of Singapore.

44) Annual Teaching Excellence Award, NUS, 2013/2014

45) Clean and Green Singapore Best Community Award 2014 (won through the Environment and

Health Functional Committee of South West CDC, of which I am an active community member)

46) School Teaching Excellence Award 2014/2015, School of Design & Environment, National

University of Singapore.

47) Filed a Singapore Patent Application on: “Biochar Pellets as Fillings for Wall Panel Cavity that

Sequester Carbon Dioxide and Regulate Indoor Environment Conditions”. The filing details are as

follows: (a) Serial No: 10201603851X (b) Filing Date: 13 May 2016.

48) School Teaching Excellence Award 2015/2016, School of Design & Environment, National

University of Singapore.

49) School Teaching Excellence Award Honor Roll 2016/2017, School of Design & Environment,

National University of Singapore.

50) Filed a Singapore non-provisional patent (application No. 10201703565T). Title: The Use of

Biochar as Partial Replacement of Sand in Cement Mortar and Biochar Pellets as Fillings in Wall

Panel Cavity for Controlling Indoor Carbon Dioxide Concentration. ILO Ref: 16104N-03) Filing Date:

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2 May 2017. A local company signed an evaluation license and an exclusive option agreement for

this invention on 21 July 2017.

51) Paper nominated for the Journal of Industrial Ecology Best Paper of the Year Award 2017.

52) Awarded the “50 Most Impactful Smart Cities Leaders (Global Listing)" by World CSR Day, 2018

Travel Funds or grants

53) MIT Alliance for Global Sustainability Travel Grant, 2002

54) MIT Technology & Policy Program Travel Grant, 2002

55) Gordon Research Conference (Industrial Ecology) Chair Travel Fund, 2004

56) Air & Waste Management Association Annual Conference Fund, 2005 57) Travel funds (awarded by the Institute for Global Environment Strategies) to attend the

Sustainable Consumption and Production Global Research Forum, 13-15 June 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Honour Fellowships

58) MIT Carroll L. Wilson Fellow (2001)

59) MIT Martin Family Society of Fellow for Sustainability (2002-2003)

60) MIT Public Service Committee Vector Fellow (2004)

61) NUS Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Research Fellowship, 2010

62) Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), Associate Fellow, 2010

63) Brown International Advanced Research Institute (BIARI) fellow, 2013

64) Bellagio Centre Academic Writing Residence fellow, 2014

OFFICIAL POSITIONS HELD

Leadership in Academic Societies

1) Member, Board of Experts, Economic Web Institute, Rome, Italy, (2009-present)

2) Member, GIN (Greening the Industry Network) Coordinating Team, 2009–present

3) Advisory Council Member, Board of Trustees, Asia Pacific Business Innovation and Technology

Management Society, 2010 – present

4) Invited as co-leader of thematic group on “land use and planning” for International Sustainable

Development Research Society, November 2013 – present

5) Elected as a Board Member of the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Section of the

International Society for Industrial Ecology, June 2015 – May 2017

6) Elected as a Board Member of the International Sustainable Development Research Society,

November 2017-October 2019

Editorship

1) Special Issue of International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialization: Technology

Transfer in the Post-Kyoto Era, 2008

2) Special Issue of the Progress in Industrial Ecology: Climate Change Policies and their Roles in

Sustainable Development, 2008

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3) Editorial Board member, Open Construction and Building Technology Journal, 2007 – present.

Reviewer, Applied Energy, 2009

4) Guest co-editor, Special Issue of Sustainable Development, for articles submitted to the 16th

Annual Sustainable Development Research Conference, 2010

5) Co-editor, Sustainability Matters – Challenges and Opportunities in Environmental Management

in Asia, Singapore: Pearson, 2011.

6) Invited editorial board member, Urban Climate, Elsevier. February 2012 – present

7) Guest co-editor, Special Issue of Journal of Cleaner Production, for articles submitted for the

Global Research Forum on Sustainable Consumption and Production, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 13-

15 June 2012

8) Co-editor, Sustainability Matters: Asia's Green Challenges, Singapore: World Scientific, 2013

9) Editorial board member, Low Carbon Economy. June 2013 – June 2015

10) Co-editor, Sustainability Matters: Asia's Energy Concerns, Green Policies and Environmental

Advocacy, Singapore: Singapore, World Scientific, 2014

11) Co-editor, Sustainability Matters: Environmental and Climate Changes in Asia, 5 ed. World

Scientific, 2015.

12) Guest co-editor of Special Issue of Sustainable Development, for articles submitted to the 20th

Annual Sustainable Development Research Conference, 2014

13) Guest co-editor of Special Issue of Journal of Industrial Ecology on Life Cycle Sustainability

Assessment, for articles submitted to the Biennial Conference of the International Society for

Industrial Ecology, 2017

14) Associate Editor, Energy & Environment, SAGE Publishing, 2017-present

Advisory and Organizational Roles in Conferences

1) Co-track chairman, “Climate Change Policies and Their Roles in Sustainable Development”, 14th International Sustainable Development Research Conference, June 2008, New Delhi, India

2) Organizer and panel chairman, Corporate Sustainable Developmental Responsibility, October 2008, National University of Singapore, Singapore

3) Co-track chairman, Sustainability in Buildings, 5th Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development, July 2009, Croatia

4) Co-track chairman, “Sustainable development and architecture, housing & construction”, 15th International Sustainable Development Research Conference, Netherlands, July 2009

5) Track chairman, Governance and Policy, 16th Annual Sustainable Development Research Conference 2010, Hong Kong

6) Track chairman, Sustainable Cities and Health, 16th Annual Sustainable Development Research Conference 2010, Hong Kong

7) Track chairman, Material Flow Management, GIN (Greening the Industry Network) Conference, 13 to 16 June 2010, Seoul, Korea.

8) Member, Academic Advisory Committee, GIN (Greening the Industry Network) Conference, 13 to 16 June 2010, Seoul, Korea.

9) Member, International advisory committee, 2010 International (Summer) Conference on Asia Pacific Business Innovation & Technology Management, July 25-27, Beijing, China

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10) Member, technical committee, 2010 International (Summer) Conference on Asia Pacific Business Innovation & Technology Management, July 25-27, Beijing, China

11) Member, International advisory team, 2011 (Spring) International Conference on Asia Pacific Business Innovation and Technology Management , January 23-25, Bali, Indonesia

12) Track co-chairman, “Interaction of Stresses”, 17th Annual Sustainable Development Research Conference 2011, Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA

13) Invited member, Scientific Advisory Board, 6th Dubrovnik Conference on Dubrovnik 2011 Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, Croatia, September 2011

14) Invited member, Technical Committee, International Conference on 'Energy, Economy and Environment', 28th to 30th December 2011, Calicut, India

15) Invited member of Organizing Committee, Workshop on Global and Regional Research on Sustainable Consumption & Production: Achievements, Challenges, and Dialogues, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 13-15, 2012. This is an event under the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI)

16) Chairman of the morning session of the Workshop on Global and Regional Research on Sustainable Consumption & Production: Achievements, Challenges, and Dialogues, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 13-15, 2012

17) Invited member, International Advisory Team, 8th International Summer Conference on Business Innovation and Technology Management, July 1-3, 2012, Genting Highland, Malaysia

18) Invited member, Scientific Advisory Board, 7th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, July 1 - 6, 2012, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia

19) Invited member, Scientific Committee, International Symposium on Life Cycle Assessment and Construction (civil engineering and buildings), July 10-12, 2012, Nantes, France. This is organized by IFSTTAR France and endorsed by the International Society for Industrial Ecology

20) Invited member, International Advisory Team, 9th International Society for Business Innovation and Technology Management Conference, October 7-9, 2012, Manila, Philippines

21) Invited to be a co-convenor by the Global Research Forum on Sustainable Consumption and Production for a track on sustainable consumption and production at the World Resources Forum Conference, 20-21 October 2012, Beijing, China

22) Invited to chair and organize a mini-symposium on “Applying Industrial Ecology Principles to Promote Sustainable Structural Materials – Exploring New Frontiers", in the First International Conference on Performance-based and Life-cycle Structural Engineering (PLSE 2012), December 2012, Hong Kong.

23) Invited member, International Advisory Team, 10th International Conference on Asia Pacific Business Innovation & Technology Management, January 20-22, 2013, Taipei, Taiwan

24) Invited member, International Advisory Team, IEEE 11th International Society for Business Innovation and Technology Management Conference, May 17-19, 2013, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

25) Invited reviewer, CLIMA 2013 - 11th REHVA World Congress and 8th International Conference

on IAQVEC, Prague, Czech Republic, June 16–19, 2013

26) Invited member, Scientific Advisory Board, 8th Conference on Sustainable Development of

Energy, Water and Environment Systems, July, 2013, Dubrovnik, Croatia

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27) Invited member, International Advisory Team, 12th International Conference on Business Innovation & Technology Management, July 01-03, 2013, the University of Derby, United Kingdom

28) Track co-chairman, Sustainable Consumption and Production, 19th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference, 1-3 July 2013, Cape Town, South Africa

29) Invited member, International Advisory Team, 15th International Conference on Business

Innovation & Technology Management, December 18-19, 2013, Taipei, Taiwan 30) Organizing Committee, Complex Systems Design and Management, December 2014, Singapore

31) Invited member, Organizing Committee, Greening of Industry Network (GIN) Conference,

September 2014, Osaka, Japan

32) Invited member, Organizing Committee, Global Research Forum – Sustainable Production and Consumption-Fudan-Tyndall Conference, June 2014, Shanghai, China

33) Track chairman, Sustainable buildings, housing and infrastructure, 20th Annual Sustainable

Development Research Conference 2014, Norway

34) Invited member, International Advisory Team, 14th International Society for Business Innovation and Technology Management Conference, May 16-18, 2014, Merlin Beach Resort, Phuket, Thailand

35) Invited member, Scientific Advisory Board, 9th Conference on Sustainable Development of

Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 20-27 September, 2014, Venice-Istanbul-Venice

36) Invited member, Scientific Advisory Board, 1st South East European Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 29 June - 4 July, 2014, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia

37) Invited member, Scientific Committee, International Symposium on Pavement LCA 2014, October 14-16 2014, Davis, California, USA

38) Track Chairman, Built Environment and Urban Systems, International Society for Industrial Ecology Conference, 7-10 July 2015, Guilford, United Kingdom

39) Invited to the Scientific Advisory Board of the SDEWES2015 – Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 2015, Dubrovnik, Croatia

40) Invited to the Scientific Board of Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) 2016 Conference, June 15-17, University of Maine

41) Scientific Committee Member and Chairman for Biochar Workshop, Sustainable Energy and Technologies 2016, 19-22 July 2016, Singapore

42) Chairman for track on Sustainable Land Use, 22nd International Sustainable Development

Research Conference, 13-16 July 2016, Lisbon, Portugal

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43) Invited as Scientific Committee member for World Sustainable Built Environment 2017, Hong

Kong

44) Invited as Scientific Committee member for 2018 International Conference on Resource

Sustainability, Beijing, China

Advisory Roles in Public Policymaking

1) Appointed member, Environmental and Health Functional Committee, Southwest, Singapore,

2006-present

2) Appointed member, Policy Study Workgroup, Physical and Environmental Sustainability, REACH Feedback Unit, Singapore Government, 2007-2009 (appointed by the Senior Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources)

3) Invited member, WorldView (Youth Functional Committee), Southwest Community Development Council, 2007–present

4) Invited member, South West Community Development Council Sustainable Development Blueprint Committee, 2008–2009

5) Chairman, Proactive Community Sub-Committee, Southwest Community Development Council ECO Plan Committee, 2008–2009

6) Council Member, Southwest Community Development Council, Singapore, 2009-2011, appointed by the Mayor of the Southwest District

7) Appointed member, Sustainability & Identity Focus Group, Singapore Concept Plan 2009-2011

8) Instructor and content designer, Energy Auditors @ Southwest Program, August 2010–August 2011. This public outreach program educates student volunteers to play the role of energy auditors and facilitators to promote energy, water efficiency and waste recycling in selected precincts in the Southwest district of Singapore.

9) Invited as an advisor for Nan Hua High School’s Environmental Council, January 2011

10) Re-appointed by the Mayor as a District Councilor of the South West Community Development Council (CDC), for the 5th Council Term (serving in the Sustainable Environment Functional Committee), from 27 May 2011 to 26 May 2014.

11) Appointed as the co-chairman of the “Cool” Sub-committee of the Sustainable Environment Functional Committee under the South West Community Development Council (CDC), from 27 May 2011 to 26 May 2014

12) Re-appointed by the Mayor as a District Councilor of the South West Community Development Council (CDC), for the 5th Council Term (serving in the Sustainable Environment Functional Committee), from 27 May 2014 to 26 May 2017

13) Provided expert advice on the school electricity conservation program conducted by National Environment Agency on East View Primary School, July 2015 – December 2015

14) Invited by the National Environment Agency to participate in the 2018 Strategy Board Advance

(Retreat)

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Membership in Academic Societies

1) Member, Air and Waste Management Association, 2005-2006

2) Member, Greening the Industrial Network, 2006-present

3) Country coordinator, Volunteer Placement, 2006-2007

4) International Society for Industrial Ecology, 2015-present

5) International Sustainable Research Society, 2015-present

6) American Society of Civil Engineer, 2017-present

SERVICES TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES

Reviewer for Journals

1) Journal of Applied Optics, 2003-present

2) Business Strategy and the Environment, Special Issue for GIN (Greening the Industry Network) Conference 2007

3) Passive and Low Energy Architecture Conference 2007, Singapore

4) GIN (Greening the Industry Network) Conference 2008

5) Special Issue of the International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialization, 2009

6) Progress in Industrial Ecology 2009

7) Business Strategy and Environment, 2009

8) Journal of Sustainable Real Estate, 2010

9) Sustainable Development, 2011

10) Strojarstvo Journal, 2012

11) Urban Studies Research, 2012

12) Energy and Building, 2012, 2015

13) Journal of Cleaner Production, 2013, 2015

14) Environmental Planning and Policy, 2013

15) Environmental Science and Policy, 2014

16) Energy Policy, 2015-present

17) Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2016

Judges or reviewers of Competitions

1) Invited as an international referee for a US$730,000 research project proposal on the application of GIS to intelligent buildings by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), 2004

2) Judge, Holcim Sustainable Building Design Competition (North America), 2005

3) Appointed judge for the $50,000 Singapore South West – SMRT ECo (Environment and Community) Fund, July 2011. Duties include evaluating applicants’ proposals and recommend the funding quantum for the projects, up to a cap of $10,000 each.

4) External expert reviewer, for evaluating the impact of scientific works by Italian researchers. This invitation came from the Agency for Evaluation of Universities and Research (ANVUR) of Italy,

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and it is an exercise known as Research Evaluation 2004-2010, which was initiated by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research. 2012.

5) Approached by Springer SBM NL to review a book proposal entitled “Collaboration for Sustainability and Innovation in the Global South”, April 2012.

6) Invited to be a judge and representative of the Southwest CDC for the 8th Public Health Awards,

13 and 14 December 2012

7) Invited by the Singapore Youth Council to be a member of the Singapore Youth Award Selection Board (Sports & Adventure), from 1 January 2013 to 30 September 2013.

8) Re-appointed member of the Selection Board for the Singapore Youth Award (Sports &

Adventure), from 1 January 2014 to 30 September 2015.

9) Invited by China’s National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), a knowledge dissemination platform

founded by Tsinghua University, as an international expert to assess the standard of Chinese-

English translation of research articles in areas related to sustainable development. Appointment

period is from 11 March 2014 to 10 March 2015.

10) Invited as an External Assessor in reviewing a funding application (over USD$500,000 in value)

received under the Environmental Research, Technology Demonstration and Conference (RTDC)

Projects funding scheme of the Environment and Conservation Fund (ECF) based on Hong Kong.

The review period is expected to commence from July 2016 and the report is expected to be

submitted by August 2016.

11) Invited to review a manuscript on climate change communication for Oxford Research

Encyclopaedia of Climate Science by the Oxford University Press. The review period is from 3

March 2016 and the report was submitted on 17 March 2016

12) Invited by the Italian Research and University Evaluation Agency (ANVUR) to help in the evaluation

of the Italian research output for the period 2011-2014 (VQR 2011-2014). The period of review

will be from July 2016 to July 2017

Professional & Consulting Activities

1) Appointed member, Singapore Certified Energy Manager program examination panel, 2009-2011

2) Appointed member, Singapore Certified Energy Manager program examination panel, 2012-2014

3) Appointed member, Singapore Certified Energy Manager program examination panel, 2015-2017

4) Appointed member, Singapore Certified Energy Manager program examination panel, 2018-2020

5) Invited as an international advisor for a project proposal on designing and implementing eco-neighborhood in Monterotondo, Italy. Invitation is from the Director of Rome-based Economic Web Institute, 2012.

6) Conducted studies on the use of biochar for carbon sequestration for Regentech Pte Ltd., 2016

7) Conducted life cycle and cost benefit assessment on carrier bags and containers for the National Environment Agency of Singapore, October 2016 – October 2017

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Services to non-governmental organization in Singapore

1) Special project advisor, Climate Change Organisation-Asia, 2007-2010

INVITATIONS

External PhD examiner

1) Invited by Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) to be an external examiner for a PhD thesis

on ““Economics of Global Warming: A Case Study of Iron and Steel Industry in India”, 2016

2) Invited by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Hong Kong Polytechnic

University to be an external examiner for a PhD thesis on “Value-Added Recycling Of Construction

Waste Wood Into Eco-Friendly Cement-Bonded Particleboards”, January 2018

Seminars and Conferences

1) Invited speaker, Ecologies of Construction, 20 – 21 Mar 2006, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2) Invited speaker, Recent Findings for Designing and Planning Sustainable Cities, Singapore, 21-23 May 2008

3) Invited speaker (as project researcher), Asia-Pacific Forum for Environment and Development Workshop and Third NetRes Meeting, 14-17 October 2008, Colombo, Sri Lanka

4) Invited speaker, Plenary Session, National Sustainability Conference, Singapore, 20-22 February 2009

5) Panelist, ACCA Sustainability Conference, Singapore, 5 June 2009

6) Invited speaker, Seminar on Innovative Economic Policies for Mitigating Climate Change, Subiaco, Rome, Italy, 26-27 June, 2009

7) Panelist, Water-Energy Interdependence, 5th Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development, 29 Sep – 3 Oct 2009

8) Invited speaker, plenary session on Comments on Future Directions for Climate Change and Green Economy (Climate Change: Asian Context), GIN (Greening the Industry Network) Conference, Seoul, South Korea, 13-16 June 2010. I spoke alongside the former Secretary-General of the renowned Cub of Rome, Martin Lees.

9) Invited speaker, plenary session at the International Corporate Social Responsibility Summit, 6-8 October 2010, Singapore. Hosted by SIIA.

10) Invited speaker, workshop on CSdR, August 2011, Singapore. Hosted by SIIA.

11) VIP and guest speaker by the government of Jilin, China, at the Global Economic Leaders Summit, Changchun City, 4-6 September 2011.

12) Guest speaker, at the Institute of Urban Environment, China Academy of Sciences, October 2011.

13) Invited speaker, Sustainable Environmental Management in Urban Asia, 15-16 December, 2011, MEM 10th Anniversary, NUS, Singapore.

14) Fellow (invited mid-career professionals and next-generation’s leaders) and contributor in the 3rd Korea Foundation Global Seminar, entitled “Reform of the Global Governance: Efforts to Enhance International Cooperation”, February 9 -12, 2012, Seoul, Korea (didn’t attend due to schedule conflict)

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15) Invited and partially funded (by Santander) to attend the Globalization TrendLab workshop (on “Sustainability: New Perspectives and Opportunities”), hosted by Lauder Institute, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA, 9-13 April 2012.

16) Invited speaker, in the session on Economics in Industrial Ecology at the BIT 1st Annual World Congress of Biodiversity-2012 (BioD-2012), which will be held on April 25-28, 2012, Xi’an, China (didn’t attend due to schedule conflict)

17) Invited speaker and panelist, Forum for Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development, workshop on Sustainable Consumption and Production, organized by International Council for Science (ICSU, which was headed by Nobel Laureate Prof Lee Yuan Tseh), on 11th June 2012, 4-6 pm, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

18) Invited speaker, invited by United Nations Environmental Program and Asia-Pacific Forum for Environment and Development (APFED), in the session on “Driving innovation toward Green Economy: Lessons Learned and Recommendations from the Field in Asia and the Pacific”, 14 June 2012. This is part of a side event of the 3rd Preparatory Committee Meeting for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

19) Invited speaker at the Global Research Forum on Sustainable Consumption and Production, 13-16 June 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is an event under the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI).

20) Invited speaker at a side event of Rio+20 on “Achieving SCP after Rio: Research, Practice & Capacity-building”, 20 June 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

21) Invited speaker and panelist, World Cities Summit, Singapore Clean Air Forum, “Innovative Solutions to Improve Air Quality among Asia's Growing Cities”, “Air Pollution Challenges Facing the Region, Especially Fine Particulate Matter”, on 3 July 2012, Singapore. This was organized by the Singapore Institute for International Affairs (SIIA).

22) Expert participant in an Expert Work Group Meeting on food wastage in Southeast Asia to be held in Singapore on 23-24 August 2012. This invitation is from NTU Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.

23) Invited speaker, Track 7-10: Low Carbon Green Architecture Case Studies (under Forum 7: Low Carbon Green Architecture), Low Carbon Earth Summit 2012, 19-21 October, Hefei, China (didn’t attend due to schedule conflict)

24) Invited speaker and panelist, IndoChine Green Festival - Clean City Air Panel, Singapore, November 2012 (didn’t attend due to schedule conflict)

25) Invited speaker and panelist for the workshop on "Eco-Cities: Practices and Challenges" at the

APEC Conference on Low Carbon Town and Physical Energy Storage, Changsha, Hunan, China,

25- 26 May 2013 (didn’t attend due to schedule conflict)

26) Invited by Channel News Asia to speak on waste recycling and sustainability in the program named “IT Figures” in August 2013 (didn’t attend due to schedule conflict)

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27) Invited by Channel News Asia to appear on a new local current affairs program featuring thought

leaders on environmental sustainability in Singapore in August 2013 (didn’t attend due to

schedule conflict)

28) Plenary speaker, on “Sustainable Construction Materials (Green Material) – What is the

International Trend which will affect locally?” at Environment Sustainability Conference on

Building towards a Sustainable Environment, 28 October 2013, Singapore. This was organized by

Singapore Contractors Association Limited (SCAL).

29) Invited by the executive organizing committee of the BIT's 1st Annual World Congress of Designers

- 2014 (AWCD-2014) – to speak in the session of ST105: Systemic Engineering and Engineering

Design Practice, under Startrack 1: Genius of Industrial and Engineering Designs. The congress will

be held in Dalian, China, from 26-29 June 2014 (didn’t attend due to schedule conflict)

30) Invited by Singapore Institute for International Affairs (SIIA) to speak at the Haze Roundtable, on

6 November 2014 (didn’t attend due to schedule conflict)

31) Invited by Gran Sasso Science Institute, INFN Center for Advanced Studies, which is based in Italy,

to deliver a webinar on case study of successful energy interventions in Singapore on 28 November

2014. This talk was part of the program for the official launch of the project entitled “OURS CITIES:

Operationalizing User-driven Resilience for Sustainability in CITIES”, which is sponsored by Brown

University’s Brown International Advanced Research Institute (BIARI).

32) Two guest e-lectures for faculties and students of Technology and Business faculty of the Kaunas

University of Technology in Panevezys, Lithuania, in March 2016

33) Keynote speech, International Conference on Environmental Science and Engineering, 15-17 April

2016, Guilin, China

34) Invited speech, Asia Pacific Biochar Conference, 19-23 October 2016, Gangwon Province, South

Korea

35) Invited speech, 2nd International Biological Waste as Resources, 25-28 May 2017, Hong Kong

Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

36) Invited to be keynote speaker for the 2nd International Environmental Science and Engineering

Conference 2017 in Guilin, China (didn’t attend due to schedule conflict)

37) Invited webinar by the International Biochar Initiative on Biochar Building Materials, 2017

38) Invited panelist for a discussion on Circular Economy at the biennial conference of the

International Society for Industrial Ecology, Chicago, 2017. Attended by about 150 participants.

39) Invited speech, Biochar Workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy, 22-25

October 2017, Tampa, USA

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40) Invited speaker, Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Webinar Series: On Life Cycle Sustainability

Unified Analysis, 14 March 2018. Invited by the American Centre for Life Cycle Assessment.

41) Invited speaker, 4th International Biochar Conference on SMART Biochar Technology: A Shifting

Paradigm towards Advanced Materials and Healthcare Research. This is a special symposium

organized by the Korean Biochar Research Center, as a part of the 2nd International Conference of

Bioresources, Energy, Environmental and Materials Technology, 10-13 June 2018, Hongcheon,

South Korea

Invited Guest Lectures for External Courses

42) Climate Change Course for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore, 2009

43) Climate Change Course for government officials in Vietnam, “Climate Change: Governance, Risks and Opportunities”, Hanoi, Vietnam, 13-14 August 2009

44) Climate Change Course for government officials in Myanmar, “Climate Change: Governance, Risk Management and Mitigation", Yangon, Myanmar, 23-24 Sep 2009

45) Climate Change and Haze Management, Singapore, 25-26 Nov 2010 (for Riau delegate)

46) MFA/APCEL Workshop on Urban and Industrial Environmental Management, 8-14 Dec 2010, NUS

47) Invited to deliver 2 lectures to government officials from developing countries by the Singapore Environment Institute (SEI), in the program named "Climate Change and Energy Sustainability", on 4 July 2011. This program is under the auspices of Ministry of Foreign Affairs Singapore and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).

48) MFA/APCEL Workshop on Urban and Industrial Environmental Management: The Singapore Model, 5-9 December 2011

49) Invited by the Singapore Environment Institute to deliver a guest lecture on 10 January 2013, on “Climate Change and Sustainable Development”, under the program of "Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for the Small Island Developing States" from 7 to 11 January 2013. This was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

50) Invited by the Singapore Environment Institute to deliver a guest lecture on 11 January 2013, on “Climate Change and Environmental Planning”, under the program of "Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for the Small Island Developing States" from 7 to 11 January 2013. This was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

51) Invited by the Singapore Environment Institute to conduct a group discussion on 11 January 2013, on “Application of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies” in the respective countries of the foreign delegates, on 11 January 2013. This is under the program of "Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for the Small Island Developing States" from 7 to 11 January 2013. This was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

52) Invited by the Singapore Environment Institute to give a lecture on “Climate Change and Sustainable Development”, during 10-day training programme on "Sustainable Development and

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Environmental Management" from 18 Feb to 1 Mar 13. This is going to be under the auspices of the SCPTA (Singapore Co-operation Programme Training Awards) and SIDSTEC (Small Island Developing States Technical Co-operation) frameworks administered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

53) Invited by the Singapore Environment Institute to deliver a guest lecture on 12 September 2013,

on “Climate Change and Environmental Planning”, under the program of "Climate Change

Adaptation Strategies for the Small Island Developing States" from 9 to 13 September 2013. This

was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore) and the Japan

International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

54) Invited by the Singapore Environment Institute to deliver a guest lecture on 13 September 2013,

on “Closing Lecture: Climate Change and Sustainable Development”, under the program of

"Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for the Small Island Developing States" from 9 to 13

September 2013. This was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore)

and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

55) Invited by the Singapore Environment Institute to deliver a guest lecture on 4 September 2014,

on “Climate Change and Environmental Planning”, under the program on " Climate Change

Adaptation Strategies " from 1 to 5 September 2014. This is held under the auspices of the SCPTA

(Singapore Co-operation Programme Training Awards) administered by the Ministry of Foreign

Affairs.

56) Invited by the Singapore Environment Institute to deliver a guest lecture on 5 September 2014,

on “Closing Lecture: Climate Change and Sustainable Development” and organize a discussion on

“Application of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in their respective countries”, under the

program on " Climate Change Adaptation Strategies " from 1 to 5 September 2014. This is held

under the auspices of the SCPTA (Singapore Co-operation Programme Training Awards)

administered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

57) Invited by the Singapore Environment Institute to deliver a guest lecture on 4 November 2015, on

'Climate Change and Environmental Planning', and a 'Closing Lecture: Climate Change and

Sustainable Development' on 5 November 2015, under the program of "Climate Change

Adaptation Strategies for the Small Island Developing States" from 2 to 6 November 2015. This

was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore) and the Japan

International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

58) Invited by the Singapore Environment Institute to deliver a guest lecture on 17 November 2016,

on 'Climate Change and Environmental Planning', and a 'Closing Lecture: Climate Change and

Sustainable Development' on 18 November 2016, under the program of "Climate Change

Adaptation Strategies for the Small Island Developing States" from 14 to 18 November 2016. This

was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore) and SIDSTEC (Small

Island Developing States Technical Co-operation) frameworks.

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59) Invited by the Singapore Environment Institute to deliver a guest lecture on 14 December 2017,

on 'Climate Change and Environmental Planning', and a 'Closing Lecture: Climate Change and

Sustainable Development' on 15 December 2017, under the program of "Climate Change

Adaptation Strategies" from 11 to 15 December 2017. This was held under the auspices of the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore).

LANGUAGES SPOKEN & WRITTEN

1) English (native; spoken & written)

2) Mandarin (fluent; spoken & written)

3) Cantonese (elementary, spoken)

4) Hainanese (elementary, spoken)

5) Teochew (basic, spoken)

6) Hokkien (basic, spoken)

HOBBIES

1) Ultra triathlon (competing at world championship and world cup levels). I was ranked world

number 2 in 2008 and am the Asian Record holder for several distances.

2) Coaching swimming, cycling, running and triathlon

3) Giving motivational talks on sport excellence and self-actualization

4) Watching movies

5) Reading and thinking anything on physics (especially on cosmology, particle physics and

theoretical physics; I am also exploring a Grand Unified Theory that is not based on the Standard

Model!)