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Our heartiest congratulations to Dr Hongying Li for winning the Underwriters Laboratories-ASEAN-U.S. Prize for Women 2021 under the Mid-career Scientist category.

Your work in Clean Water and Clean Air has been honored in designing an internationally recognised ballast water treatment system to protect marine life from water pollution along with groundbreaking work in predicting airborne droplet dispersal rates to estimate the transmission risks of the COVID-19 virus.

With your passion for discovery and extraordinary contributions in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), you have inspired those around you, including colleagues and future-ready scientists you have mentored throughout your career.

For more details about the announcement, click here.