Ir Professor Irene Man Chi Lo, JP
勞敏慈
FHKEng [2023]
Chair Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Fellow, Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
- Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers
- Fellow and Founding Member, Hong Kong Institute of Qualified Environmental Professionals Limited
- Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study
- Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award, 2019
- Justice of the Peace, 2017
- Elected Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2014
- ASCE Wesley W. Horner Award, 2009
- ASCE Samuel Arnold Greeley Award, 2007
- Michael G. Gale Medal on Distinguished Teaching, 2006
- ASCE James Croes Medal, 2004
Prof. Lo is an internationally renowned scholar and is among the first to invent iron-based nanomaterials and photocatalytic materials for the removal of heavy metals, organics, and emerging pollutants such as antibiotics from water and subsurface environment as well as to investigate the fundamental understanding of the pollutant removal mechanisms. Her research is ground-breaking and innovative, sustainable, and the outcome application is economical. Besides, she also works on life cycle assessment, carbon footprint, net zero carbon, and Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) for construction materials, commercial and residential buildings, and treatment processes.
PhD
Civil (Environmental) Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
1992