Biography:
Dr Liew is a principal consultant involved in professional engineering/ strategic management and master planning of infrastructural developments in oil & gas, chemicals, pharma, residential and agri-aquaculture projects. Notably, in 1996, Jurong Island masterplan was undertaken as consultant to Bechtel (USA) as well as several foreign industrial and agri-aquaculture developments.
He serves as mentor to National University of Singapore (NUS) on start-ups in frugal innovation including Nanyang Technological University (NTU) /IHLs/Schools internship programmes. He was Associate Lecturer for SIM-RMIT (Australia) on Construction Management continuously for 25 years since programme inception in 1996.
His passion in green and sustainable areas of frugal innovations include innovative constructions, environmental engineering, green energy from poultry waste, waste to worth, water & food resources, agri-aqua technologies etc. relating to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Dr Liew's achievements in NUS/NTU and in Harvard University programme on CRISPR: Gene-Editing Applications interest him to mentor/lecture undergraduates to PhD students in applied natural sciences on water conservation, food foot print and sustainability at IHLs such as SIM/NUS/NTU/Polytechnics on theses/researches/start-ups of frugal innovations by tapping on the Nature’s Wonders of Algae in a bio-circular economy. Dr Liew provides mentorships/sponsorships to foreign universities in Malaysia, China, Indonesia and Philippines for Education & Entrepreneurships.
He researches and contributes papers on UN SDGs and has patents on super well point ground water dewatering and on bio-photo-reactor in propagation of Algae. He has undertaken frugal innovation solutions for startups, talked and published papers on 10 of the 17 SDGs on Sustainability, Survivability, Buildability and Livability. He collaborates with international universities on bio-technological products and has interests in the use of CRISPR on Algae for solving global wastes and hunger problems while advancing the frontiers even in finding new TCM cures for humanity.
He promotes and collaborates on the China-Asean cooperations with Guangxi University. Of the 10 SDGs one area of interests which he coined is Origin of Sustainability -
The Nature’s Wonders of Algae which covers back to nature's basics in FOOD, FEED, FUEL & FEAT for Humanity in improving health and wellbeing towards zero hunger for life on Mother Earth.
Title : Origin of sustainability - The nature's wonder of algae biotechnological role of algae in humanity