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The Faculty continues to collaborate with our industry, government and academic partners. Our endeavours generate solutions to address complex, real-world problems.

Developing pharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities

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Determining
anti-inflammatory compounds in mushrooms

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Imaging at the nanoscale

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Predicting heat injuries
in soldiers

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Improving the shelf life of
bakery products

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Understanding avian
blood parasites

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Several creative ground-up projects by NUS Science graduates were nominated under NUS’ Resilience and Growth (R&G) Innovation Challenge for their potential to address various societal issues. With R&G funding, they can translate their ideas into reality, to positively impact society.

Increasing financial resilience during the pandemic

Chemistry graduate Ruth TEO (2018) recognised the financial hardship brought about by COVID-19 and together with an interdisciplinary team, set up Project FLY to improve the financial literacy of youths from low-income families. The team customised a six-week programme that includes small-group mentoring sessions to guide participants towards their self-directed financial goals and help them contextualise the lessons for personal application.

Ruth Teo (top row, left)
Geneve Chua (second from right)

Early detection of falls

Geneve CHUA, Year 4, Food Science and Technology, was part of an interdisciplinary team of NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) alumni who were inspired to help the vulnerable elderly when they realised that undetected falls can lead to serious consequences such as internal bleeding or even death. They set up HomePal, an elder technology project that utilises ambient sensing technology to create an early alert system for detecting falls at home swiftly while protecting privacy. HomePal seeks to increase elderly folks’ access to care services when emergencies happen, thereby providing peace of mind for old folks and their families.

Making a positive impact on at-risk youth

Pharmacy graduate Charmaine YAP (2019) and her teammates from NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine discovered the shaping potential of sports in their own lives and decided to set up Taekwondo for life to share the ‘special kind of magic from sport’ to uplift at-risk youths. The structured sports mentoring programme comprises weekly taekwondo lessons to inculcate positive values in the participants, such as sportsmanship, mental fortitude, the ability to work together despite differences and the willingness to help others thrive in adversity.

Charmaine Yap (top row, right, in black belt dobok)
Victor Zhu (top row, right)

Spaces for cocreating impact

Fresh Quantitative Finance graduate Victor ZHU and his teammates from Sociology, and Communications and New Media, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, established Crater, which serves as a sandbox to kickstart collaborative initiatives. The cocreation spaces seek to optimise resources and opportunities, facilitate the exchange of information and pool negotiating power. This enables collaborative teams to take on larger-scale projects and deliver impact.

Inaugural Graduate Research Innovation Programme (GRIP) Prime programme

CHUAH Fangqin, Year 3, Environmental Studies, was one of two NUS Science students who participated in the inaugural run of the programme held from 1 January 2020. The experience enabled her to convert her interest in green innovation into a deep technology startup, called Binkie, to develop sustainable fibres for fashion. Her startup addresses a market gap for ethical and sustainable fur products by adopting plant-based fur to replace plastic and real fur. The GRIP Prime programme enables NOC students to pursue deep technology entrepreneurship with GRIP mentors.

Inaugural Graduate Research Innovation Programme (GRIP) Prime programme

CHUAH Fangqin, Year 3, Environmental Studies, was one of two NUS Science students who participated in the inaugural run of the programme held from 1 January 2020. The experience enabled her to convert her interest in green innovation into a deep technology startup, called Binkie, to develop sustainable fibres for fashion. Her startup addresses a market gap for ethical and sustainable fur products by adopting plant-based fur to replace plastic and real fur. The GRIP Prime programme enables NOC students to pursue deep technology entrepreneurship with GRIP mentors.

Our faculty members are widely recognised by their peers for their achievements and enjoy high international standing. Our reputation for excellence was reinforced through various awards for our faculty members’ exceptional contributions to science and research. 

Asst Prof Shruti Bhatt
Department of Pharmacy

She received the American Society of Hematology Global Research Award, which recognises the contributions of international scientific leaders in the field of hematology and supports their scientific careers as young investigators.

Prof Zhou Wang
Department of Statistics and Data Science

He was elected as an Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Fellow for his significant contributions to limit theorems, empirical likelihood, random matrices and Schramm-Loewner evolution. The IMS Fellowship honours the outstanding research and professional contributions of their members in the field of statistics and probability.

International

National

Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS) Fellowship

Prof Antonio Helio de Castro Neto
Prof Sow Chorng Haur
Prof Yu Hao

Prof Antonio Helio de CASTRO NETO, Distinguished Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, and Department of Physics, Prof SOW Chorng Haur, Department of Physics and Prof YU Hao, Department of Biological Sciences, were conferred the SNAS fellowships. Prof Castro Neto is honoured for his contributions in the area of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their industrial applications. Prof Sow conducts research in nanoscience and nanomaterials, and is a renowned educator recognised for developing effective pedagogy in science communication. Prof Yu is internationally known for his work in plant molecular genetics and plant biotechnology. His research findings provide essential gene resources and mechanisms for crop breeding and urban farming, which in turn help improve food security in Singapore and around the world.

Prof Artur Konrad EKERT was appointed as a Distinguished Professor for his leadership in quantum information science and pioneering work in quantum cryptography. He was the founding Director of NUS’ Centre for Quantum Technologies, established as Singapore’s first Research Centre of Excellence in December 2007.

Prof KOH Lian Pin was appointed to the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professorship of Conservation. He has attained international recognition in conservation and biodiversity research, with significant and impactful leadership in critical climate solutions for Singapore and the region.

Prof Artur Konrad Ekert
Department of Physics
Prof Koh Lian Pin
Department of Biological Sciences

University

Provost's Chair

Prof Guillermo Carlos Bazan
Department of Chemistry
Prof Zhu Chengbo
Department of Mathematics

The Provost’s Chair is awarded to faculty members who have achieved international recognition in their fields. 

Prof Guillermo Carlos BAZAN is an internationally renowned Professor of chemistry and materials science. Prof ZHU Chengbo is known for his expertise in representation theory of Lie groups and theta correspondence.

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Dean’s Chair appointees have achieved recognition in their respective fields.

Assoc Prof Jason YEO, Department of Chemistry, is an internationally recognised scholar in the field of electrocatalysis of energy conversion reactions. Assoc Prof HUANG Hao and Assoc Prof YAO Yao, both from the Department of Mathematics, specialise in extremal combinatorics and graph theory, and nonlinear partial differential equations that arise in fluid dynamics and mathematical biology, respectively. Assoc Prof Utkur Mirziyodovich MIRSAIDOV, Department of Physics, engages in interdisciplinary research, with expertise in electron microscopy.

  • Assoc Prof Jason Yeo

  • Assoc Prof Huang Hao

  • Assoc Prof Yao Yao

  • Assoc Prof Utkur Mirsaidov

The Faculty actively engages top young academic talent as part of our longstanding efforts to pursue excellence in science research. We appointed five young academics with excellent research track records in their respective fields as NUS Presidential Young Professors.

Asst Prof Lin Zhewang
Department of Biological Sciences

He studies how the accurate and timely production of functional proteins is critically important for cellular activities, to understand the molecular basis of disease initiation processes for novel therapeutic approaches.

Asst Prof Long Yuchen
Department of Biological Sciences

He studies plant biomechanics, namely, the interaction between the mechanical forces and molecular regulations of plant development, for novel strategies to improve plant health and development. 

Asst Prof Tan Yong Zi
Department of Biological Sciences

He uses cryogenic electron microscopy to study the atomic structures of proteins embedded in cellular membranes, to develop drugs and therapeutics against human diseases.

Asst Prof Zhu Ruyi
Department of Chemistry

He designs and develops better ribonucleic acid (RNA)-based drugs, such as messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines and gene editing tools, to treat intractable diseases like cancer.

Asst Prof Yu Hui
Department of Mathematics

He studies free boundary problems to understand how often singularities occur.

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