My research interests in the past eight years have been on experimental aspects of sustainable energy and chemical technologies, such as biofuels, nanofluids, flue gas desulfurisation and waste valorisation.  In my PhD project, I am doing purely computational research on biomass value chains and the environment-food-energy-water nexus: whole-systems analysis and optimisation.

I am jointly funded through the CHED-Newton Agham PhD Scholarship grant under the Newton Fund Project and CHED K-12 Transition Programme of the British Council Philippines and the Commission of Higher Education (CHED) under the Office of the President, Republic of the Philippines.  This scholarship offers full PhD support for Filipino researchers at a UK higher education, wherein the research much focus on priority areas such as improving environmental resilience, improving energy security, future cities and among other thematic areas.  In my PhD project, we will attempt to develop sustainable biomass value chains that can provide best possible benefits and abate negative impacts to the environment-food-energy-water nexus.