Yale-NUS College Library
Programme Room 2
Conducted by Dr Chan Kiat Hwa
Climate change is driven by, in no small part, the excessive emission of carbon dioxide due to fossil fuels. Nuclear energy is a source of large amount of energy, but its acceptance is often tempered by the hazardous nature of nuclear waste. This is an issue that affects not only the present but far into the future too, making nuclear waste storage a paramount issue to contend with.
About Dr Chan Kiat Hwa
Dr Chan Kiat Hwa is a Senior Lecturer at NUS College and an experimental chemist who earned his PhD in Chemistry from Princeton University working on the siderophore of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. His current research interests include the organometallic chemistry of rhenium and osmium carbonyl complexes, as well as the physical chemistry of peptide hydrogels. He is also interested in exploring socially accessible ways to mitigate the impact of plastics on our environment.
