The Team

Group Lead

Dr Kok Siew NG

MEng PhD FHEA AMIChemE

Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering

Brunel University of London

Email: koksiew.ng@brunel.ac.uk

Current Researchers

PhD students

Primary Supervision

Janna Aljoubory, Chemical Engineering (Brunel, UK), 2023-Present – Systems Analysis of Energy-from-Waste integrated with Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies

Tingting Zhao, Chemical Engineering (Brunel, UK), 2025-Present – Modelling and Optimisation of Bioresource Utilisation for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production

Hajar Mohammed Mutaab, Chemical Engineering (Brunel, UK), 2025-Present – Developing a Sustainable Decarbonised Polygeneration System Concept for the Production of Hydrogen, Chemicals, and Energy

Co-Supervision

Hassan Chamas (Brunel, UK), 2022 – Present – Synthesis and Application of Waste-derived Activated Carbon for Carbon Capture


Alumni

PhD students

Hannah KargboChemical Engineering (Newcastle, UK), 2019-2023 – Biofuel production from biomass waste and residues

Postdoctoral Researchers
  1. Thomas To-Hung Tsui (Oxford, UK), 2022-2023, Oxford Agile Sprint
  2. Wei Zhang (Oxford, UK), 2022-2023, Oxford Agile Sprint
  3. Purusothmn Nair (Oxford, UK), 2022-2023, Oxford Agile Sprint
MEng & MSc students
  1. Enzia Schnyder, Engineering Science (Oxford, UK), 2018-2019 – Modelling the potential of chemical production from food waste using anaerobic digestion (Awarded the best 4YP Prize)
  2. Mario Büttner, Energy Engineering (RWTH Aachen, Germany), 2019-2020 – A systems thinking framework for sustainable airport development
  3. Meléa Emunah, Civil & Environmental Engineering (Princeton, US), 2019-2020 – Applying a systems thinking approach to enhancing circularity in water management systems: A case study of San Francisco, CA, USA.
  4. Danial Farooq, Engineering Science (Oxford, UK), 2019-2020 – Development of hydrothermal liquefaction process for the production of sustainable aviation fuel in the UK.
  5. Zakaria Jama, Engineering Science (Oxford, UK), 2020-2021 – A system thinking approach to sustainable management of magnesium in the United States. 
  6. Lyn Yeoh, Engineering Science (Oxford, UK), 2020-2021 – Investigating the future prospects of spent coffee ground valorisation using a biorefinery approach.
  7. Anusha Sohil Oza (Brunel, UK), 2022-2023 – Sustainable utilisation and valorisation of organic resources.
Interns
  1. Patricia Jacob, Physics (Oxford, UK), Jul-Oct 2020 – Software development
  2. David Clarke, Mathematics (Oxford, UK), Jul-Oct 2020 – Software development
  3. Danial Farooq, Engineering Science (Oxford, UK), Jun-Sep 2020 – Modelling and software development
  4. Khemmathin (Martin) LueangwattanapongEngineering Science (Oxford, UK), Feb-Mar 2021 – International case studies
  5. Lyn Yeoh, Engineering Science (Oxford, UK), Jul-Aug 2021 – International case studies
  6. Minakshi Ashok, Engineering Science (Oxford, UK), Sep-Dec 2021 – Software development
  7. Luke Hatton, Engineering Science (Oxford, UK), Oct-Dec 2021 – Editorial