Biography

DR KIT WAYNE CHEW is an Assistant Professor at the School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He obtained his PhD from the University of Nottingham. He is currently an Associate Member in the Institution of Chemical Engineers Malaysia (IChemE), Graduate Engineer registered with the Board of Engineers Malaysia and Graduate Technologist registered with the Malaysia Board of Technologies. He is passionate about conducting research studies, academic tutoring and collaborative networking. His research interest is in sustainable bioprocess engineering and design, including the development of cost-effective and environmentally friendly processes to produce valuable biomolecules. He also works on renewable energy, sustainability and modelling of bioprocesses.

Since he started his academic career in 2017, he has received several prestigious awards, including the Top 2% World Top Scientists in The Stanford List 2021, Global IChemE Award for Young Researcher 2020, Winner for the Young Research in IChemE Malaysia Award 2020, Finalist for YSN-ASM Rising Star Award 2019, Postgraduate Prize Award 2019 and the Vice Chancellor’s Medal 2019. He is PI and co-PI to research projects amounting to more than MYR900,000. He currently co-supervises a team of 12 postgraduate members, supervising a total of 8 ongoing FYP projects and more than 5 research interns. Up to now, he has published more than 155 Journal articles and 15 book chapters in just 6 years of his career. His publications have been cited over 4000 times in the past 6 years, and he has a h-index of 32.

He is now serving as an Editorial Board Member in Bioengineered (IF: 6.832), Environmental Science & Ecotechnology (IF: 9.371), Current Nutrition and Food Science, and The Open Microalgae Biotechnology; Review Editor in Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Frontiers in Energy Research, Frontiers in Horticulture and Frontiers in Marine Science; and Guest Editor in many reputable journals, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Elsevier (IF: 14.224), Environmental Pollution, Elsevier (IF: 9.988), Chemosphere, Elsevier (IF: 8.943),  Environmental Technology and Innovation, Elsevier (IF: 7.758), Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, Elsevier (IF: 7.632), Bioengineered, Taylor & Francis (IF: 6.832), Processes, MDPI (IF: 3.352), Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, Elsevier, Current Nutrition & Food Science, Bentham Science. He is also active in reviewing for more than 50 esteemed journals by Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, ACS, RSC and Taylor & Francis publishers.