Yong Ren Tan
Research Student

Biography
Yong Ren has completed his PhD Chemical Engineering in the CoMo group in 2023. His PhD is supported by Fitzwilliam College (Kwok Family-Lee Kuan Yew PhD Scholarship), Trinity College (Trinity-Henry Barlow Scholarship), Cambridge Trust, and Cambridge-CARES Studentship Award.
Yong Ren's PhD research topic is focused on the topic of biofuels and clean energy. In particular, he investigates of the effect of oxygenated fuels in soot formation during combustion. He employs a range of burner systems and experimental methods to help further understanding the influence of different oxygenated functional groups in the formation of carbonaceous materials. Some of the experimental techniques that he used in his studies are colour ratio pyrometry and differential mobility spectrometry.
Prior to his PhD, he has worked in Cambridge CARES Ltd as a Research Engineer, researching on the sooting tendencies of oxygenated fuels. He has two years of industry experience working as a Management Associate in the telecommunications sector. He is also a graduate from Imperial College London and is awarded with a first class honours in BSc Chemistry. He has also received the Imperial College London Departmental Prize for Outstanding Overall BSc Performance.
Research profileORCID: 0000-0002-8029-9027
PhD thesisDOI: 10.17863/CAM.96995
Research Themes



Recent Preprints
333: Singapore MacKay Carbon Calculator Powered by The World Avatar
Mei Qi Lim, Sushant S. Garud, Srishti Ganguly, Kok Foong Lee, Li Chin Law, Yong Ren Tan, Wilson Ang, Wen Liu, Raymond Lau, Kunn Hadinoto, Iftekhar A. Karimi, Epaminondas Mastorakos, S. Viswanathan, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 333, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2024.
332: Beyond Connected Digital Twins – from GIS to The World Avatar
Yong Ren Tan, Markus Hofmeister, Shin Zert Phua, George Brownbridge, Kushagar Rustagi, Jethro Akroyd, Sebastian Mosbach, Amit Bhave, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 332, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2024.
326: Municipal heat planning within The World Avatar
Yi-Kai Tsai, Markus Hofmeister, Srishti Ganguly, Kushagar Rustagi, Yong Ren Tan, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 326, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2024.
322: Hacking Decarbonisation with a Community-Operated CreatorSpace
Aleksandar Kondinski, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, Andrew Breeson, Yong Ren Tan, Simon D. Rihm, Jiaru Bai, and Markus Kraft, Technical Report 322, c4e-Preprint Series, Cambridge, 2023.
Recent Publications
Yong Ren Tan, Yichen Zong, Maurin Salamanca, Jacob W. Martin, Jochen Dreyer, Jethro Akroyd, Wenming Yang, and Markus Kraft, Combustion Science and Technology 197(1), 107-128, (2025).
Simon D. Rihm, Yong Ren Tan, Wilson Ang, Hou Yee Quek, Xinhong Deng, Michael Teguh Laksana, Jiaru Bai, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft, Nexus 1(3), 100031, (2024).
The digital lab manager: Automating research support
Simon D. Rihm, Yong Ren Tan, Wilson Ang, Markus Hofmeister, Xinhong Deng, Michael Teguh Laksana, Hou Yee Quek, Jiaru Bai, Laura Pascazio, Sim Chun Siong, Jethro Akroyd, Sebastian Mosbach, and Markus Kraft, SLAS Technology 29(3), 100135, (2024).
Hacking decarbonization with a community-operated CreatorSpace
Aleksandar Kondinski, Sebastian Mosbach, Jethro Akroyd, Andrew Breeson, Yong Ren Tan, Simon D. Rihm, Jiaru Bai, and Markus Kraft, Chem 10(4), 1071-1083, (2024).
Contact Details
Email: | yrt23@cam.ac.uk_delete_this_bit |
Address: | Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology University of Cambridge West Cambridge Site Philippa Fawcett Drive Cambridge CB3 0AS United Kingdom |
Website: | Personal Homepage |