Cambridge CARES counts members from various stages of academia – from PhD students to professors. As such, we have people coming and going throughout the year and we’re always interested to hear where our alumni go next. Here, we catch up with a few of our former members and see what they’ve been up to since they left CARES.
Dr Guowu ZHAN
Dr Zhan was a Research Fellow in IRP1 between January 2017 and January 2018, where he researched the integration of materials design and selection (i.e. for adsorbents and catalysts) with advances in process design to achieve improved selectivity and conversion. His main focus was the preparation of high-performance integrated nanocatalysts for CO2 hydrogenation. Dr Zhan is now working as a Professor at Huaqiao University in Fujian, China. His main research area is the design, fabrication and application of INCs for gas-phase CO2 hydrogenation and liquid-phase benzyl alcohol oxidation reaction.
Dr Ping LI
Dr Li spent over three years at CARES, also as a Research Fellow in IRP1. Her main projects were engineering layered double hydroxide-based nanocomposites for heterogeneous catalysis and developing MgO-based materials for CO2 capture. She left in April 2018 to take up an Associate Professorship at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. Here, she is continuing her work on engineering nanocomposites for environmental catalysis and energy-related catalysis, for which applications include CO2 catalytic conversion, CO2 electrocatalytic reduction and nitrogen fixation.
Dr Eddy FOO
Dr Foo worked at CARES as a research engineer between 2014 and 2016, in IRP4, after receiving his BEng and PhD from NTU. While at CARES, his main area of research interest was multi-agent systems for the management of microgrids and model predictive control in power systems. He is now back at NTU as a lecturer in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Dr Li ZHOU
Dr Zhou was a Research Fellow at CARES between 2016 and 2018, working on the J-Park Simulator as part of IRP3. She is now an Associate Professor at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, after leaving CARES in early 2018. Dr Zhou says that the research environment and the relationships she developed at CARES prepared her well for her future work.
Dr Prakash Kumar RAY
Dr Ray started in IRP4 in 2017 looking at detection, identification and mitigation of power quality issues in microgrids and petrochemical plants. He is now an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India. His research is on power system engineering, including power quality, stability and grid integration issues in distributed generation-based power systems.
Dr Wen (Paul) LIU
Occasionally, we’re lucky enough to have CARES members return after a break. Dr Liu joined CARES just one year after it started, as an NTU Senior Research Fellow in IRP1, after completing his BA, MEng and PhD in Chemical Engineering at Cambridge University. He stayed for two years, leaving in 2016 to take up an Assistant Professorship at Newcastle University. A recent appointment as Assistant Professor at the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, NTU, has brought Dr Liu back to C4T. He is now running his own research group, focusing on the reaction engineering of C1 chemistry and carbon reduction technologies. Dr Liu is now a Co-I in IRP1.
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