People
![Fidel COSTA](/images/librariesprovider46/default-album/portraits/nrf-research-investigators/prof20fidel20headshot5932415b-854e-4a7b-aec4-46f10999261c.png?Status=Master&sfvrsn=ea7713b9_3)
Professor, Asian School of the Environment
NRF Investigatorship (Class of 2017)
Research Expertise/Interest
1. Understanding and quantifying the processes that make volcanoes erupt which includes fieldwork, geochemical and petrological studies of the erupted rock and thermodynamic and kinetic experiments and models.
2. Monitoring time series data (seismicity, deformation, gas fluxes), and making probabilistic models for better anticipating volcanic eruptions using big databases (WOVOdat).
![SUM Tze Chien](/images/librariesprovider46/default-album/portraits/nrf-research-investigators/sum20tze20chien20nrf20investigatorb6781885-acf0-4ef8-b95e-dfed6f7f1c0b.jpg?Status=Master&sfvrsn=72fc6dfb_3)
Professor, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
NRF Investigatorship (Class of 2018)
Research expertise/interest: Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy; Photophysics; Energy & Charge Transfer Mechanisms; Carrier & Quasi-Particle Dynamics; Emergent Light Harvesting and Light Emitting Systems; Photovoltaics and Lasing.
![ZHAO Yanli](/images/librariesprovider46/default-album/portraits/nrf-research-investigators/zhao20yanli20nrf20investigatorbeb44f19-2ede-4363-8664-cd310c12cbab.jpg?Status=Master&sfvrsn=4ebfef7d_3)
Professor, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
NRF Investigatorship (Class of 2018)
Research expertise/interest: Nanomedicine, Porous Materials, Heterogeneous Catalysis.
![PHAN Anh Tuan](/images/librariesprovider46/default-album/portraits/nrf-research-investigators/phan20anh20tuan2jpgbb5d322f-55da-4331-b5de-a1936a74ee91.jpg?Status=Master&sfvrsn=5c6a5165_3)
Professor, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
NRF Investigatorship (Class of 2017)
Research Expertise/Interest: Biophysics and Structure of Nucleic Acids.
![Christos PANAGOPOULOS](/images/librariesprovider46/default-album/portraits/nrf-research-investigators/people-christos-panagoloulos101e6011-a159-41a5-8b6a-b3692dec31f7.jpg?Status=Master&sfvrsn=33c5c647_5)
Research Professor, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
NRF Investigatorship (Class of 2015)
Research Expertise/Interest: Electronic materials, phase transitions and transformations, electron-density variation across a surface or an interface, quantum magnetism, superconductivity, emergent ferroelectrics and magnetic topology.
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Professor, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
NRF Investigatorship (Class of 2016)
Research Expertise/Interest: Organic Catalysis, Chemical Synthesis, Functional Molecules.
![XIONG Qihua](/images/librariesprovider46/default-album/portraits/nrf-research-investigators/people-xiong-qihuae0a41950-3a06-4b92-b246-7624f6a70566.jpg?Status=Master&sfvrsn=f6a8e515_5)
Professor, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
NRF Investigatorship (Class of 2015)
Research Expertise/Interest: Optical spectroscopy, laser cooling of solids, nanophotonics and nanoelectronics.
![David Lallemant](/images/librariesprovider46/default-album/portraits/nrf-research-fellows/david20lallemantc4a48af5-efd3-4bb8-977d-660cb6bae10d.jpg?Status=Master&sfvrsn=b0687d76_5)
Assistant Professor, Asian School of the Environment
NRF Research Fellowship 2018
Research Expertise/Interest:
1. Hazard, Vulnerability, and Risk Analysis
2. Disaster Risk and Resilience
3. Remote-Sensing, Machine Learning, Geostatistics
4. Policy-Oriented Research
5. Structural and Earthquake Engineering,
Performance-Based Design.
![Caroline Bouvet](/images/librariesprovider46/default-album/portraits/nrf-research-fellows/caroline20bouvet8df8921f-95c2-4e6c-af60-439d68d7eac9.jpg?Status=Master&sfvrsn=f1fca991_5)
Nanyang Assistant Professor, Asian School of the Environment
NRF Research Fellowship 2016
Research Expertise/Interest: Eruptive dynamics and eruption histories using field investigations, petrology, petrophysics and textural analyses, numerical modelling, morphometry, and tephrostratigraphy.
![Sylvain BARBOT](/images/librariesprovider46/default-album/portraits/nrf-research-fellows/photo-sylvain-barbot9c55e2b4-e6e4-4686-ac27-b00e3face5fd.jpg?Status=Master&sfvrsn=561a4088_5)
Nanyang Assistant Professor, Asian School of the Environment
NRF Research Fellowship 2013
Research Expertise/Interest: Tectonophysics, Geodesy, Modelling.
![Judith HUBBARD](/images/librariesprovider46/default-album/portraits/nrf-research-fellows/photo-judith-hubbarda26e8263-5d55-4cb1-b5ab-df90a3a49ded.jpg?Status=Master&sfvrsn=60ece85a_5)
Nanyang Assistant Professor, Asian School of the Environment
NRF Research Fellowship 2013
Research Expertise/Interest: Structural geology/active tectonics.
![](/images/librariesprovider46/default-album/portraits/nrf-research-fellows/photo-mikinori-kuwata0d16fd11-a21d-4416-9652-a47122d8ab77.jpg?Status=Master&sfvrsn=fc0e4adf_3)
Nanyang Assistant Professor, Asian School of the Environment
NRF Research Fellowship 2013
Research Expertise/Interest: Atmospheric chemistry.
![Bent Weber](/images/librariesprovider46/default-album/portraits/nrf-research-fellows/bent20weberc92b6d16-001f-464b-9d7b-a9c82251a060.jpg?Status=Master&sfvrsn=1e73849e_5)
Nanyang Assistant Professor, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
NRF Research Fellowship 2017
Research Expertise/Interest:
1. Atomic and electronic stricture of two-dimensional and topological materials
2. Quantum information processing science and technology
3. Nanoelectronic and quantum device physics
4. Low-temperature scanning probe microscopy
5. Atomic manipulations and lithography.
![](/images/librariesprovider46/default-album/portraits/nrf-research-fellows/gu20mile230b9b60-bf41-4e5b-b268-a797a0e1c7fb.jpg?Status=Master&sfvrsn=60a5a204_3)
Nanyang Assistant Professor, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
NRF Research Fellowship 2016
Research Expertise/Interest: Quantum information, Complexity Science, Quantum Computation, Physics of Information, Quantum Foundations.
![Justin Song](/images/librariesprovider46/default-album/portraits/nrf-research-fellows/justin20songaba87f82-116c-46b2-9004-d84eeaea3a90.jpg?Status=Master&sfvrsn=2177e0e1_5)
Nanyang Assistant Professor, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
NRF Research Fellowship 2016
Research Expertise/Interest: Quatum condensed matter theory, topological materials, mesoscopic transport, and opto-electronics of quantum materials.
![GAO Weibo](/images/librariesprovider46/default-album/portraits/nrf-research-fellows/photo-gao-weibo40857f7b-71e1-480f-a3b0-43707bc563cd.jpg?Status=Master&sfvrsn=a22b4df5_5)
Nanyang Assistant Professor, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
NRF Research Fellowship Year 2015
Research Expertise/Interest:
1. Quantum optics research and quantum information application of colour centre spin in SiC
2. Coupling of optical cavity to single emitters to study quantum QED
3. The coupling of colour centre spin to mechanical oscillators for quantum sensing.
![LAN Shau Yu](/images/librariesprovider46/default-album/portraits/nrf-research-fellows/photo-lan-shau-yu2c3fc00a-6716-47a6-922f-e36121a95ce9.jpg?Status=Master&sfvrsn=3f294892_5)
Nanyang Assistant Professor, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
NRF Research Fellowship 2013
Research Expertise/Interest: Utilizing quantum optics, atom optics, and laser cooling and trapping techniques for quantum sensing, precision measurement, and quantum metrology.
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Nanyang Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
NRF Research Fellowship 2018
Research Expertise/Interest: My research interests focus on the molecular mechanisms underscoring the activation of cancer driver genes and the role of non-coding RNA in the progression of human cancers. The main focus of my laboratory is to understand the role of inflammatory mediators such as NF-κB in activating transcriptional programs that are critical for the malignant transformation of cancer cells.