Asst Prof. Iris Yu

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

National University of Singapore

Iris Yu is interested in the upcycling of biomass waste, food waste in particular, to platform chemicals and sustainable materials as alternatives to petroleum-based products, with the ambition to achieve carbon neutrality. She specializes in microwave-assisted conversion, green solvents and catalysts, and sustainable thermochemical processes. She obtained her PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in 2018. Before joining NUS, she was a Research Assistant Professor at PolyU and a Humboldt Fellow at the Technical University of Munich.