This research area covers:
Accident Prediction, Injury Prevention, Applications of Statistical Model for Safety Analysis, Human Behavior for Safety Studies and Safety Policy and Regulation
Air Quality Monitoring, Total Ozone Column, Solar Ultraviolet Radiation, Boundary Layer Dynamics and Chemistry
Atmospheric Chemistry, Air Pollution Meteorology, Instrument Development, Field Measurements and Data Analysis
Atmospheric Chemistry; VOC Photochemistry, Source Apportionment, Acidic Ultrafine Particles, Secondary Organic Aerosol, Indoor Air Chemistry
Biofuel, Bio-composites, Lignocellulosic Biomass, Biological Model, Activated Sludge Process
Contaminated Land Remediation, Urban Water Management, Waste Recycling and Resource Recovery, Environmental Chemistry
Eco-friendly Construction Materials, Concrete Technology, Waste Recycling and Management
Energy Capture from Wastewater; Fermentation; Anaerobic Digestion; Anammox; Meta'omic Analysis; Thermodynamic Computation
Environmental Nanotechnology, Aerosol Technology, Advanced Water Treatment, Environmental Sensing, Environmental Chemistry
Indoor Air Pollution, Toxic Air Pollutants, Emission Source Characterisation, Carbonaceous Aerosol Characterisation
Sediment Quality Assessment, Urban Environmental Geochemistry, Phytoremediation of Contaminated Land, Air Pollution Monitoring and Assessment, Hazardous Waste Treatment
Water/Wastewater Treatment, Industrial Effluent Treatment and Design, Environmental Chemistry, Soil Remediation.
Course Structure:
Three years (for students admitted on the basis of a Master's degree with a significant research component);
Four years (for students admitted on the basis of a Master's degree or a Bachelor's degree).
Expected August 2022
Faculty of Construction and Environment, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
ZS1201, 12/F, South Tower, Block Z,
Hung Hom,
Kowloon City, Hong Kong, Kowloon
To register for the degree of PhD, a student must normally hold a postgraduate degree containing a significant research component, such as a dissertation, conferred by a recognized university.
In exceptional circumstances, applicants other than those stipulated above may be admitted directly to the PhD programme. For example, an applicant with a Bachelor’s degree with First Class Honours, or the equivalent. Such applicants may be required to pass an examination.
PolyU may accept other equivalent qualifications. The decision is made on an individual basis.
The requirements for those who do not have a degree for which English was the language of instruction at a recognised university are:
An overall score of at least 6.5 (with score for the writing component at 6.0 or above) in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS); OR
A Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score of 80 or above for the Internet-based test (with a writing score of 23 or above) or 550 or above for the paper-based test (with a score of 4 or above in the Test of Written English).
Alternatively, consideration will be given to acceptable scores in other internationally recognised public examinations, such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT).
All English language test scores are considered valid for five years after the date of the test.
