Biography
Prof. Alfred Tok is currently AssociateProfessor of Nanomaterials at the School of Materials Science &Engineering, and focuses on the synthesis, processing, fabrication andapplications of inorganic and carbon based (eg. CNT, graphene) 2D & 3Dnanomaterials, nanocomposites & nanostructures, for both mechanical andfunctional applications.
His academic qualifications are:
•PhD,School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang TechnologicalUniversity (NTU), Singapore
•BEng(Mechanical) (1st Class Honors & Dean’s Award for Excellence), Faculty ofBuilt Environment & Engineering, Queensland University of Technology,Brisbane, Australia
•MBA(Strategy) (Dean’s Honors List), Nanyang Business School, Nanyang TechnologicalUniversity, Singapore
Prior to academia, he worked as aMechanical Engineer (Airframe Structures) at Singapore Technologies AerospaceEngineering (Singapore), and was responsible for materials and structuralrepairs and modifications of helicopters in the Republic of Singapore Air Forcefleet, as well as commercial helicopters from around the South East Asia region.
As Principal Investigator, he has wonResearch Grants from both Academia (~$10.2M)and Industry / Government (~$7.8M)since 2003, and his research achievements include 5 patents, 194 international peer-reviewed journal publications and 2book chapters, with 6,724 citations & 38 H-Index.
He isalso recognized as World Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University 2022-2023.
He maintains consistent internationalcollaborative partnerships with various faculty on funded research projects,and some of these include Australian National University (Australia), AustriaInstitute of Technology (Austria); Georgia Institute of Technology (USA);Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel); Loughborough University (UK); NationalInstitute for Materials Science (Japan); University of Cambridge (UK); Xi’AnJiaotong University (China) etc.
His recent research on smart windows haswon International Publicity on >30 mainstream and social media platforms, aswell as journal cover features on Advanced Optical Materials (IF: 10.1) &American Chemical Society’s ACS Omega (IF: 4.13). Previous researchcollaboration work on the toxicity of artificial sweeteners has also beenfeatured internationally.