Chun-Yang Yin, Prof.
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Professor – Materials Science
Biography
Professor Yin is currently a Professor at the College of Engineering and Computer Sciences, VinUniversity. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from University of Malaya. He also holds Advanced Certificate in Sustainability from Singapore Management University and Certificate of Proficiency in Carbon Accounting from the GHG Management Institute, USA.
Dr Yin previously held visiting scholar appointments at Columbia University and Harvard University and faculty positions at universities in the United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia. Prior to joining VinUniversity, he served as a Professor of Advanced Materials & Sustainability at Newcastle University in Singapore (NUiS), a member of the Russell Group in the UK, where he focused on research and innovation in sustainable materials and environmental engineering solutions.
Professor Yin previously served as the inaugural Director of Internationalization at NUiS and as a member of its Singapore Executive Board. Through close collaboration with international partners, he jointly secured over £1.2 million in research funding from Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), British Council and Australian Research Council. He has published more than 100 JCR-indexed journal articles and currently listed in the Stanford List of Top 2% of Scientists (main subfield discipline). He was awarded the 2013 Murdoch University Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research in recognition of his achievements.
He served as a member of the British Council-Newton Fund Engineering and Physical Sciences Review Panel (2015–2023), a UK Management Committee Member for the EU COST Action ES1205 and a member of the Sustainability Committee at the British Chamber of Commerce Singapore. Three of his papers have been recognized for their impact and of which two featured as cover images in flagship journals and one designated as a HOT manuscript in 2017. He is currently serving as Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio) and Materials (MDPI).
He successfully co-supervised seven PhD students and a postdoctoral research associate (PDRA) within his research group and was nominated for The Education Awards (TEAs) in the “Outstanding Contribution to Teaching – Global Campuses” category (2021) at Newcastle University, UK.
Professor Yin also provides technical advisory and consultancy services on sustainability to companies and stakeholders with a focus on decarbonization technologies. He has conducted organizational-level greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting (ISO 14064) for companies in Singapore covering Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions and performed product-based cradle-to-gate carbon emissions reporting (ISO 14067). Additionally, he led carbon accounting workshops for SME practitioners in Singapore.
• Advanced Materials
• Carbon Science and Materials
• Sustainability & ESG
• Life Cycle Assessment
• Circular Economy
• Renewable Energy
• Waste Reuse and Valorization
• Carbon Accounting
• Materials
• Sustainable Processing and Manufacturing
• Renewable Energy
• Environmental Engineering
· Yin, C.Y.# El-Harbawi, M. and Jiang, Z.T. (2023). Life Cycle Assessment of Production of Hydrochar via Hydrothermal Carbonization of Date Palm Fronds Biomass. Materials, 16(20), p.6653.
· Amri, A., Hendri, Y.B., Rahman, M.M., Manawan, M.T.E., Yin, C.Y., Jiang, Z.T., Altawrawneh, M. (2021). Synthesis of Very Few Layers Graphene Using Two Steps Shear Exfoliation in Aqueous Solution. Chemical Engineering Science, 245, 116848. (Selected as Journal Cover).
· Yin, C.Y.# and Lee, L.Y., (2019). Teaching chemical engineering students industrial symbiosis using online resources: A Singapore case study. Education for Chemical Engineers 27, 28-34.
· Ha, N.N., Cam, L.M., Thi Thu Ha, N., Jiang, Z.T., El‐Harbawi, M., Yin, C.Y.#, (2018). Integrated QMMM and Monte Carlo methods for analysis of adsorptive interactions between goethite cluster, carbon nanotubes, and arsenate. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, p.e25653. (Selected as Journal Cover).
· Nguyen, N.H., Ha, N.T.T., Goh, B.M., Saunders, M., Jiang, Z.T., Altarawneh, M., Dlugogorski, B.Z., El-Harbawi, M., Yin, C.Y.# (2017). Understanding the adsorptive interactions of arsenate—iron nanoparticles with curved fullerene-like sheets in activated carbon using a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics computational approach. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19 (22), 14262-14268. (PCCP HOT article in 2017)
· Yin, C.Y.#, Ng, M.F., Goh, B.M., Saunders, M., Hill, N., Z.T. Jiang, Balach, J., El-Harbawi, M. (2016). Probing the interactions of phenol with oxygenated functional groups on curved fullerene-like sheets in activated carbon. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18, 3700-3705.
· Yin, C.Y.#, Ng, M.F., Saunders, M., Goh, B.M., Senanayake, G., Sherwood, A., Hampton, M. (2014). New insights into the adsorption of aurocyanide ion on activated carbon surface: Electron microscopy analysis and computational studies using fullerene-like models. Langmuir, 30(26), 7703-7709.
· Yin, C.-Y.#, Nikoloski, A.N., Wang, W. (2013). Microfluidic solvent extraction of platinum and palladium from a chloride leach solution using Alamine 336. Minerals Engineering 45, 18 – 21.
Featured in Australian Media:
· Cert. of Proficiency, Organizational GHG Accounting, GHG Management Institute, US
· Adv. Cert. in Sustainability & Sustainable Businesses, Singapore Management University
· Postgrad. Cert. in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Teesside University, UK
· Doctor of Philosophy (Chemical Engineering) (Malaya)
· Master of Engineering Science (Civil and Environmental Engineering) (Malaya)
· Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) (Chemical), (UPM).
· Murdoch University Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research (Early Career Development and Achievement), Australia, 2013.
· Stanford List (Top 2% of scientists – main subfield discipline)
· Editorial Board Member – Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio)
· Editorial Board Member – Materials (MDPI)
· Fellow, The Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom
· Member, The Institution of Engineers Australia
· Associate Member, Institution of Chemical Engineers, United Kingdom
