Iris KM Yu

Assistant Professor

National University of Singapore

Civil & Environmental Engineering

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MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 (TR35) Asia Pacific 2023
Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (2023 - Present)
Highly Cited Researcher (Cross-Field), Clarivate, 2022, 2023
World's Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University 2023
Cornell – NUS Global Strategic Collaboration Award 2023
Winner, Young Voices in the Chemical Sciences for Sustainability 2023, International Organization for Chemical Sciences in Development (IOCD) [Compendium]
Humboldt Fellow, The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2020/21)

Early Career Editorial Board, Science of the Total Environment (2023 - Present)
Early Career Board, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2023 - Present)
Advisory Board, RSC Sustainability (2023 - Present)
Young Editorial Board, Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy (2022-Present)
Guest Editor, Environmental Pollution (2021), Science of the Total Environment (2020), Environmental Research (2020)

EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor (2023-)

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Assistant Professor (2021-2023)

Research Institute for Future Food (RiFood)

Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK

Humboldt Fellow, Postdoc (2019-2021)

Technische Universität München, Germany

Postdoc (2018-2019)

University of York, UK

Visiting Researcher (09-10/2017, 09-10/2018)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Supervisor: Prof. Jacob de Boer

Research Interest: biomass conversion, food waste recycling, bioresource utilisation, green and sustainable chemistry, catalysis