My principal research interests lie in various fields of heterogeneous catalysis and related engineering applications, e.g. environmental protection, automotive emission control, reduction of carbon emissions, clean and efficient renewable energy production, and chemical production. I have conducted my independent research on development of analytical techniques, catalyst and reactor designs, and experimental protocols for kinetic and transient reactivity studies, isotopic labelling, as well as in-situ and operando spectroscopic analysis. I am currently working on the elucidation of the reaction mechanism of the selective oxidation of methacrolein to methacrylic acid, using my own developed infrared reactor coupled with a short-time-on-stream (STOS) technique, as well as other catalytic applications using non-thermal plasma (NTP) technology. The research keywords and projects that I am currently involved with are as follows:

• Heterogeneous catalysis
• Selective oxidation and hydrogenation reactions
• Transient kinetics, in situ and operando techniques
• Heterogeneous reaction mechanism
• Modulation excitation and phase sensitive analysis
• Catalyst designs, preparations and characterisations
• C1 Chemistry (CO₂, CO, CH₄, and CH₃OH)
• Hydrogen production
• Catalytic reactor designs
• Non-thermal plasma applications

I have practical skills and extensive experience with various fields of modern catalysis research such as:

• building, developing, designing and modifying of catalytic reactor systems for different purposes
• catalyst designs and preparations such as impregnation, sol-gel process, precipitation, co-precipitation and ball-milling method for both gas-phase and liquid-phase heterogeneous reactions 
• both ex situ and in situ catalyst characterisation techniques such as TPR, TPD, TPO, TGA, BET, CO-Chemisorption, XRD, XPS, XAS, EXAFS, SEM, FTIR, UV-Vis and neutron scattering
• transient kinetics, short time on stream and relevant mechanistic techniques used for autocatalysis such as DRIFTS-MS and SSITKA-DRIFTS-MS, and MEIRS-PSD
• problem solving, project and lab management
• IT skills in Microsoft Office package (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc) as well as in the use of many scientific programmes (OPUS, Grams, Origin, ChemDraw, TotalChrom, etc) for data process and analysis

 Duties and Responsibilities

• Research responsibilities
• Maintaining the research laboratory and equipment
• Supervising and assisting undergraduate and PhD students with their research projects
• Writing and preparing scientific articles for publication, conferences, technical reports and presentations
• Managing projects and solving problems
• Arranging the meeting with the industrial partners for the update and progress