Experience

Prof. Lin received his master degree in Environmental Engineering & Sciences at National Taiwan University in 2005. After one and half year of military service in Taiwan, he worked as a research assistant in National Yunlin University and executed a hydrological project prior to his enrollment to Columbia University in the city of New York in 2008. In Columbia, Andrew was a full-time research assistant in Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy under supervision of Professor Ah-Hyung Alissa Park and Professor Klaus Lackner. Andrew's primary project in Columbia University was to develop Nanoparticle Organic Hybrid Materials for CO2 capture and conversion. In 2011, Andrew successfully defended his dissertation"Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Nanoparticle Organic Hybrid Materials for CO2 Capture" and moved to University of Notre Dame to work as a postdoctoral research associate funded by Center of Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame (cSEND). His work focused on inter-facial chemistry of carbon-based materials (e.g., CNTs, Graphene) in water and oils. Since February 2013, he joined the department of environmental engineering at National Chung-Hsing University as an assistant professor; his research interests include sustainable energy, the control of Green House Gases, nanoscale carbonaceous chemistry and application, polymeric nanocomposites, etc.

Research Interests

Novel Environmental Materials: Design and Development of Functional Nanomaterials and Catalysts
Water pollution control: advanced oxidation treatment to decompose organic pollutants and catalytic reduction to remove water poisons
Air pollution control: catalytic process and catalyst design and development for oxidative decomposition of soot and control of gaseous pollutants (CO, VOC, NOx, H2S)
Resource reuse and energy conversion: reuse and high value of biomass and agricultural derivative materials
Carbon dioxide capture/reuse: Carbon capture CO2 capture; Carbon dioxide conversion and reuse CO2 utilization

Courses

Selected Publications