Speaker: Daniel CW Tsang

Time: March 26th, 10:00-11:30 a.m.

Venue: Meeting Room No. 1015, the 1th floor, Department of environmental science and engineering.

About the speaker:

Dan is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was an IMETE Visiting Scholar at Ghent University in Belgium, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University in the US, Senior Lecturer and Lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and Post-doctoral Fellow at Imperial College London in the UK and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. With a strong link to real-world environmental challenges, Dan’s research group strives to develop cost-effective and low-impact solutions to ensure sustainable urban development, enhance the engineering infrastructure, and create new ways in which we manage contaminated soils/sediments, municipal solid waste, and urban waters.

Dan has published over 100 SCI journal papers and received Excellence in Review Award for Chemosphere and Environmental Science and Technology. He serves as Editorial Board Member of Chemosphere, Associate Editor of Journal of Soils and Sediments and Environmental Geochemistry and Health. He has also served as Guest Editor for Bioresource Technology, Chemosphere, Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Environmental Geochemistry and Health. Dan is chair and organizer of 2nd Biological Waste as Resource Conference (BWR2017, Hong Kong), 2nd International Conference on Bioresources, Energy, Environment, and Materials Technology (BEEM2018, Korea), and 4th Contaminated Land, Ecological Assessment and Remediation Conference (CLEAR2018, Hong Kong).