Ir. Wing Ching Kwok

Wing Ching Kwok graduated in 2022 from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) with a master’s degree in Chemistry and a specialisation in hydrometallurgy. She finished her master’s thesis project of “Circular Hydrometallurgy: Solvent Extraction of Methanesulphonic Acid”, which focused on the regeneration of chemical reagents consumed in the metallurgical processes by solvent extraction. She is currently enrolled in a PhD program at the ULB 4MAT department under the supervision of Professor Prakash Venkatesan in the development of electrochemical process for the lithium recovery from various secondary sources.

She also participates in the Horizon Europe’s funding program – RELiEF Project to develop an efficient pre-processing unit operations for solid input materials to selectively leach out and recover lithium from the liquid stream.

Hydrometallurgical and Electrochemical Recovery of Lithium from Various Secondary Sources

Xu, G.; Lee, L. C.; Kwok, C. W.; Leung, P. K.; Zhu, J.; Lo, K. K. Utilization of Rhenium(I) Polypyridine Complexes Featuring a Dinitrophenylsulfonamide Moiety as Biothiol‐Selective Phosphorogenic Bioimaging Reagents and Photocytotoxic Agents. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2021, 2021, 3432–3442. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202100364.

Muthukumar, V.†; Kwok, W. C.†; Chen, Z.; Gouveia, J. R.; Jena, A.; Borra, C. R.; Venkatesan, P. Rapid Microwave-Assisted Leaching for the Recovery of Lithium from Pegmatite Heaps Containing Mixture of Lepidolite and Zinnwaldite. Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 2026, 47, e01909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susmat.2026.e01909. † These authors contributed equally

Mahanta, V.; Kwok, W. C.; Ramasamy, D. L.; Venkatesan, P. Tweaking the Electrodes of LiFePO4/FePO4-Based Electrochemical Lithium-Ion Pumping System for Lithium Extraction. Desalination, 2026, 621, 119721. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2025.119721.