Dr Roong Jien (RJ) Wong

Roong Jien (RJ) Wong completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2017 under the supervision of Prof Rose Amal at UNSW, Australia. He is currently a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, with joint affiliation to Cambridge CARES, and has a wide range of experience in heterogeneous catalysis research for renewable energy and environmental remediation, including photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, photoelectrocatalysis, thermal catalysis, and photothermal catalysis.

RJ has been a Visiting Researcher at the UK Catalysis Hub at Research Complex on multiple occasions, including collaboration with Professor Richard Catlow and Dr Emma Gibson to develop a combined in situ XAFS/DRIFTS reactor for high pressure experiments, in particular CO2-to-methanol synthesis. The work involved modification of the current XAFS/DRIFTS reactor system for high pressure applications, which can also be applied in ammonia synthesis or Fischer-Tropsch reactions. RJ is also actively involved in microalgae bioremediation research for circular economy.