Research Interests
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Current research interests include (but are not limited to):
- Fate, occurrence, and ecological impact of anthropogenic chemicals and naturally occurring toxins in the environment
- Enrichment, isolation, and characterization of functional environmental microbiomes for bioremediation and resource recovery
- Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering chemical–microbe interactions
- Discovery and engineering of environmental biocatalysts (enzymes) for pollutant transformation and resource recovery
- Lab automation and high-throughput screening to accelerate functional characterization and system optimization
- Applications of AI in environmental microbiology and chemistry (e.g., predictive modelling, protein structure/function inference, reaction pattern recognition, benign chemical design)
- Novel reactor/bioprocess engineering for enhanced waste removal and resource recovery (e.g., algae–bacteria symbiotic systems)