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Prof. Carol Sze Ki LIN
Professor, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong
- Prof. Carol Lin received her Bachelor’s degree (First Class Honours) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She was awarded with PhD in 2008 in the research field of Biochemical Engineering at the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science at the University of Manchester, England. After her working at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as Visiting Assistant Professor. In 2011, she began her academic career in School of Energy and Environment at City University of Hong Kong, and she was promoted to Associate Professor and Full Professor in 2017 and 2024, respectively. She has led 20 research projects as Principal Investigator, which mainly focus on development of integrated biorefinery strategies includes valorization of agricultural residues, food, beverage, plastic and textile wastes. Prof. Lin has published more than 170 peer-reviewed journal articles. She was recognised as the World’s top 2% scientists in the fields of ‘Biotechnology’ and ‘Environmental Science’ by Stanford University since 2019.
Research Interest
·Biorefinery
·Green and Sustainable Chemistry
·Food waste valorisation
·Nutrient recovery
·Waste and biomass valorisation
·Green and Sustainable Chemistry
·Food waste valorisation
·Nutrient recovery
·Waste and biomass valorisation
Research Highlights
News
Congratulations to PhD student Zihao for receiving a poster award from the conference!--GLOBAL CHINESE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION CONFERENCE (GCEPC 2024)
2024/5/8
Waste2Func--Bioeconomy stories for a sustainable and green future told by our future! Check it out now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV9j4Jct6f8
2023/12/7
Collaborative Research Fund cum Research Impact Fund Symposium 2023.
2023/9/1
Frost joined Carol's group as PhD student. Welcome!
2023/04/24
Dr Carol visited and gave a series of seminars at South China University of Technology, Shaoguan University, and Kunpeng Institute of Modern Agriculture at Foshan.
2023/05/12
Celebration of the graduation of JIANG Xintian (MSc student)!
2023/05/16
PhD student TO Ming Ho successfully completed his PhD defence session on 25 May 2023. Congratulations!
2023/05/31
Upon invitation, Dr Carol gave a talk in Xi’an Jiaotong University titled ‘Technological Advancement and Development of Circular Waste-based Biorefinery for Sustainable Production of Chemicals, Materials, and Fuels’.
Selected Publications
Journal Papers
1.Lin, C.S.K., Pfaltzgraff, L.A., Herrero-Davila, L., Mubofu, E.B., Abderrahim, S., Clark, J.H., Koutinas, A.A., Kopsahelis, N., Stamatelatou, K., Dickson, F., Thankappan, S., Mohamed, Z., Brocklesby, R., Luque, R. (2013) Food waste as a valuable resource for the production of chemicals, materials and fuels. Current situation and global perspective. Energy and Environmental Science, 6(2), 426-464.
https://doi.org/10.1039/c2ee23440h
https://doi.org/10.1039/c2ee23440h
2.Zhang, A. Y.-Z.c, Sun, Z.c, Leung, C.C.J.c, Han, W.c, Lau, K.Y.c, Li, M.c& Lin, C.S.K.* (2013) Valorisation of bakery waste for succinic acid production. Green Chemistry, 15, 690-695.
https://doi.org/10.1039/c2gc36518a
https://doi.org/10.1039/c2gc36518a
3.Pleissner, D., Lam, W.C., Sun, Z., Lin, C.S.K.* (2013) Food waste as nutrient source in heterotrophic microalgae cultivation. Bioresource Technology. 137(0), 139-146.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2013.03.088
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2013.03.088
4.Koutinas, A.A., Pleissner, D., Vlysidis, A., Kopsahelis, N., Lopez Garciac, I., Kookosd, I., Papanikolaou, S., Kwan, T.H. and Lin, C.S.K.* (2014) Valorization of industrial waste and by-product streams via fermentation for the production of chemicals and biopolymers, Chemical Society Reviews. 43(8), 2587-2627. Invited review.
https://doi.org/10.1039/c3cs60293a
https://doi.org/10.1039/c3cs60293a
5.Kwan, T.H.a, Hu, Y.a, Lin, C.S.K.* (2018) Techno-economic analysis of a food waste valorisation process for lactic acid, lactide and poly(lactic acid) production. Journal of Cleaner Production. 181, 72-87.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.01.179
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.01.179
6.Hu, Y., Du, C., Leu, S.Y., Jing, H., Li, X., Lin, C.S.K.* (2018) Valorisation of textile waste by fungal solid state fermentation: An example of circular waste-based biorefinery. Resources, Conservation & Recycling. 129, 27-35.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.09.024
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.09.024
7.Li, C., Yang, X., Gao, S., Chuh, A.H., Lin, C.S.K.* (2018) Hydrolysis of fruit and vegetable waste for efficient succinic acid production with engineered Yarrowia lipolytica. Journal of Cleaner Production, 179, 151-159.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.01.081
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.01.081
8.Ong, K.L., Fickers, P., Lin, C.S.K.* (2020) Enhancing succinic acid productivity in the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica with improved glycerol uptake rate. Science of The Total Environment, 702
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134911
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134911
9.To, M.H., Wang, H., Lam, T.N., Kaur, G., Roelants, S.L.K.W., Lin, C.S.K.* (2022) Influence of bioprocess parameters on sophorolipid production from bakery waste oil. Chemical Engineering Journal, 429
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.132246
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.132246
10.Bank, M.S.*, Mitrano, D.M., Rillig, M.C., Lin, C.S.K., Ok, Y.S. (2022) Embrace complexity to understand microplastic pollution.Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 3(11), 736-737.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00365-x
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00365-x
Journal Covers
Books
Laboratory of Waste and Biomass Valorisation
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