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

Muthukumar, V., Kwok, W. C., Venkatesan, P. Extraction of lithium from Pegmatite mine tailings via microwave-assisted leaching and chemical precipitation. Presented at the 1st International Circular Hydrometallurgy Symposium, Mechelen, Belgium, Sep 9-11, 2024.

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.