Dr. An’s PhD Student Mr. Bowen Pak Wai Wong received the 1^st Student Best Poster Presentation Award by Desalination Editors at the Membrane Desalination 2021 (MEMDES2021), 5^th International Conference on Desalination using Membrane Technology, which was held during 14 - 17 November 2021. Mr. Wang presented his PhD study on “Real-time monitoring of membrane wetting progression using impedance spectroscopy”. The paper is now under revision by EST.

In same conference, Dr. An was invited as a keynote speaker and presented her recent work on Mxene membrane for photothermal membrane distillation to treat hypersaline brine. Details can be found here: https://www.elsevier.com/events/conferences/desalination-using-membrane/programme/speakers.