Carbon Footprints

Professor Ir. Dr. Dominic Foo is a Professor of Process Design and Integration at the University of Nottingham Malaysia and is the Founding Director of the Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM), a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the Engineering Council UK, Professional Engineer (PEng) with the Board of Engineer Malaysia (BEM), ASEAN Chartered Professional Engineers (ACPE), as well as the President for the Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering (APCChE). He is the top 1% world-renowned scientist according to Stanford List, working in process integration for resource conservation and CO₂ reduction. He collaborates with more than 50 research scholars and industrial practitioners over Asia, Europe, North America, and Africa. Professor Foo is an active author, with eight books, and more than 190 journal papers, and made more than 240 conference presentations, with more than 30 keynote/plenary speeches. He served on International Scientific Committees for many important international conferences (CHISA/PRES, FOCAPD, ESCAPE, PSE, SDEWES, , etc.). Professor Foo is the Editor-in-Chief for Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability (Springer Nature), Subject Editor for Process Safety & Environmental Protection (Elsevier), and editorial board member for several other renowned journals. He is the winner of the Innovator of the Year Award 2009 of IChemE, the Young Engineer Award 2010 of IEM, the Outstanding Young Malaysian Award 2012 of Junior Chamber International (JCI), Outstanding Asian Researcher and Engineer 2013 (Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan), Vice-Chancellor’s Achievement Award 2014 (University of Nottingham) and Top Research Scientist Malaysia 2016 (ASM).

CO₂ reduction; Carbon footprint reduction; Energy planning; Process integration; Process optimisation