Catalyst: Is the Amino Acid a New Frontier for Biorefineries?

Prof. Ning Yan obtained his BS and PhD degrees from Peking University in 2004 and 2009, respectively. Thereafter, he worked as a Marie-Curie research fellow at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. He joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) as an assistant professor, established the Lab of Green Catalysis in 2012, and was promoted to the position of associate professor in 2018. Yunzhu Wang received her BE degree from NUS in 2014. She joined Prof. Yan’s group in the same year and is currently pursuing her PhD. Her research interests include nanoscale metal catalysts and their applications in producing renewable nitrogen-containing chemicals.