Department of the Built Environment, College of Design and Engineering
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
PhD in Materials, Imperial College London (2015)
o National Research Foundation (Clean Energy) Overseas Scholarship
B.Eng. in Materials Engineering (First Class Honours), Nanyang Technological University (2011)
o Dean’s List for 2009/2010 and 2010/2011
o A*STAR Pre-Graduate Scholarship for 2010/2011
Workforce Skills Qualifications Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (2017)
EMPLOYMENT RECORDS:
Associate Professor, Department of the Built Environment, NUS (2023 – Present)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Building, NUS (2019 – 2022)
Adjunct Researcher, Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, NUS (2019 – Present)
Head of Urban Solar Group and National Solarisation Centre, Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, NUS (2017 – 2018)
Head of National Solarisation Centre, Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, NUS (2016 – 2017)
Deputy Head of National Solarisation Centre, Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, NUS (2015 –2016)
PROFESSIONAL/CONSULTING ACTIVITIES:
Working Group Member on Renewable Energy Certificates, Singapore Standards Council (2021)
Taskforce member of Green Built-Environment Advisory Committee for the Singapore Green Building
Masterplan (2020)
Invited speaker and panelist for Sustainable Energy Technology Asia 2018 (2018)
Lead Trainer for ASEAN Training of Trainers on Solar Technology for Renewable Energy Training
Institutions (2018)
Country representative for ACE-USAID Workshop on Renewable Energy Incentive (2017)
Consultant for Imperial Consultants advising a Fortune Global 500 company (2013-2014)
TEACHING:
PF1101 Fundamentals of Project Management
PF3504 Energy Management
PF4305 Green Developmemt
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Solar photovoltaic performance in the urban environment
Co-location of solar photovoltaic systems and greenery
Willingness-to-pay and social perceptions on renewable energy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Mavian Xin Yi Tay, Grace Khei Mie Wong, Siu-Kit Lau, Stephen En Rong Tay, Motivations and
deterrents of Asian small and medium-sized enterprises’ willingness to adopt green electricity, Journal of
Cleaner Production, Volume 370, 2022, 133233, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.133233
Member of Working Group that developed the SS 673 : 2021 Code of practice for renewable energy
certificates, published by Enterprise Singapore (2021)
Chapter contribution to Update of the Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Roadmap for Singapore, commissioned by
the National Climate Change Secretariat (2020)
Chapter contribution to Where Sun Meets Water : Floating Solar Market Report – Executive Summary
(English), commissioned by World Bank Group (2018)
Chapter contribution to Super Low Energy Building Technology Roadmap, commissioned by Building
Construction and Authority (2018)
AWARDS:
University Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for AY21/22 (2023)
University Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for AY20/21 (2022)
University Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for AY19/20 (2021)
Young Green Building Advocate Award Category under the SGBC-BCA Sustainability Leadership Awards
(2019)
Nanoscale article selected for the “2016 Nanoscale HOT Article Collection” and featured in the Stanford
Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource Science Highlights (2016)
1st prize for presentation and poster competition, Electrophoretic Deposition V: Fundamentals and
Applications (2014)
1st prize for technical presentations, IET Present Around the World Competition (UK South East Region)
(2013)
1st prize, Royal School of Mines Association Essay Competition (2012)
1st prize for poster competition, Discover URECA@NTU (2010)
NTU President Research Scholar (2009/2010)
DSO-URECA Research Scholar (2008/2009)
Staff Details
University
National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive Singapore 117566
