Dr. Cher Hon (Sam) Lau
University of Edinburgh, UK

Biography:

Sam is a Senior Lecturer (U.S. equivalent of Associate Professor) at the School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh. Sam’s background is in materials science, with particular focus on separation applications. He has been active in research on separation science since 2008. He is a graduate of Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Flinders University and The National University of Singapore in various courses ranging from Electronics and Computer Engineering to Nanotechnology to Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His research has been commercialized in China and Australia. He has published more than 60 scientific research papers in journals such as Science, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, PNAS etc. His research has been cited more than 5500 times, resulting in a h-index of 39. In his teaching, Sam specialises in Polymer Science and Engineering. He has also been recently awarded a prestigious EPSRC Fellowship to develop photo-responsive materials for resource recovery via desalination.