{"id":2205,"date":"2021-04-01T15:52:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T07:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/?post_type=nus-news&#038;p=2205"},"modified":"2022-10-14T17:10:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T09:10:43","slug":"a-p-yan-ning-and-a-p-zhao-dan-appointed-as-deans-chair","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/news\/a-p-yan-ning-and-a-p-zhao-dan-appointed-as-deans-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"A\/P Yan Ning and A\/P Zhao Dan appointed as Dean&#8217;s Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professors Yan Ning and Zhao Dan have been appointed as Dean&#8217;s Chair in the Faculty of Engineering with effect from 1 January 2021. The appointments of the Dean\u2019s Chair are in recognition of their outstanding and impactful scholarly accomplishments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2207\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2207\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2207 size-large\" src=\"\/chbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/Dean_Chair_YN_ZD_updated-1024x770.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/Dean_Chair_YN_ZD_updated-1024x770.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/Dean_Chair_YN_ZD_updated-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/Dean_Chair_YN_ZD_updated-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/Dean_Chair_YN_ZD_updated.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A\/P Yan Ning (left) and A\/P Zhao Dan (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prof. Yan\u2019s research uses heterogeneous catalysis to transform shrimp shell, woody biomass, carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>) and other cheap\/waste substrates into valuable products. Prof. Yan has received many awards, including NUS Young Researcher Award (2019), ACS Sustainable Chemistry &amp; Engineering Lectureship Award (2018), and RSC Environment, Sustainability and Energy Early Career Award (2017).<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Zhao\u2019s research develops new Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) materials for a wide range of applications, including CO<sub>2<\/sub> separation from flue gas, natural gas storage, and desalination. The numerous awards Prof. Zhao received include NUS Young Researcher Award (2019), NUS Engineering Young Researcher Award (2017), and Global Chinese Chemical Engineers Symposium Outstanding Youth Award (2017).<\/p>\n<p>More information on Prof. Yan\u2019s research can be found on the following page:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/staff\/cheyann\/\">https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/staff\/cheyann\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More information on Prof. Zhao\u2019s research can be found on the following page:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/staff\/chezhao\/\">https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/staff\/chezhao\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professors Yan Ning and Zhao Dan have been appointed as Dean&#8217;s Chair in the Faculty of Engineering with effect from 1 January 2021. The appointments of the Dean\u2019s Chair are in recognition of their outstanding and impactful scholarly accomplishments. Prof. Yan\u2019s research uses heterogeneous catalysis to transform shrimp shell, woody biomass, carbon dioxide (CO2)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2204,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[21],"class_list":["post-2205","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14162,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2205\/revisions\/14162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}