James Kwan completed a BSc in chemical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York in 2007. He studied at Columbia University, and in 2012 he was awarded his MPhil, MSc, and PhD under the guidance of Professor Mark Borden.
During the final months of his PhD, James moved to the University of Colorado, Boulder as a researcher before joining the BUBBL group in Oxford as a postdoc under the supervision of Professor Constantin Coussios. During this time, James was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship at New College. At the end of his term, he joined the Oxford spinout company OxSonics as a chemical engineer. In 2016, James left Oxford to become an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering. After four years in Singapore, James moved back to Oxford to join the Department of Engineering Science as an Associate Professor and a Tutorial Fellow at Balliol College.
He is part of the Physical Acoustics Lab (PacLab) and a PI in OSCAR. James' research interests include the study of ultrasound and cavitation and applying it to address challenges in personal and environmental health. Regarding environmental health, James has a particular interest in sonochemical reaction engineering to facilitate green CO2 conversion to valuable chemicals. And this is also the focus of the research he is doing with the support of the SCGC-FIRST scheme.
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