Dr Kenn Lu
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Biography
My research interests focus on discovering novel microbes and functions from environments and applying them to solve problems in the real world. I am currently a Research Fellow in Microbial Ecology and Wastewater Microbiology at the Water Innovation and Smart Environments Laboratory under Prof Yang Liu. I finished my PhD major in Microbiology at The University of Queensland in 2014 and continued as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Advanced Water Management Centre in UQ until 2017. My primary research goals are directed towards understanding the microbial ecology in wastewater treatment using cutting-edge molecular technologies including metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and proteomics. I investigated a large variety of wastewater treatment processes from anaerobic digestion, nutrient recovery, single-cell protein, and microbial fuel cells, to ANAMMOX, and DAMO bacteria/archaea. I also have experience discovering biomimetic material of Velvet worms from 2019 to 2021 at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. I am currently applying a meta'-omics approach to investigating novel phenomena from the wastewater treatment process.Personal details
Positions
- Research Fellow in Microbial Ecology and Wastewater Microbiology
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Keywords
Microbial ecology, Metagenomic, Metatranscriptomic, Microbial function, Microbial community, anaerobic digestion, ammonia removal, biomethane, biological process, waste treatment
Research field
Civil engineering, Microbiology, Ecology
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
- Bachelor of Biotechnology (University of Queensland)
Publications
Research outputs by year
QUT ePrints
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