As a faculty member at the Chemical Engineering Department of De La Salle University (DLSU) in the Philippines, Prof. Dr. Micheal Angelo B. Promentilla has over five years of research experience on decision modeling and risk analysis as being applied to environmental and energy systems. He is the head of the Waste and Chemicals Management Unit of DLSU’s Center for Engineering and Sustainable Development Research (CESDR). He is also actively involved in mentoring young researchers on the design and characterisation of sustainable materials, and the founding head of the Geopolymer and Advanced Materials Engineering Research for Sustainability (G.A.M.E.R.S.) Lab situated at DLSU.
Through the ASEAN S&T Fellowship, Prof. Promentilla will be involved in developing and using evidence-based scientific methods for policy development as he will be appointed to work with his host government agency, the Philippines Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). He is in discussion and interested to elucidate factors that aid policy development, and are not limited to natural and technical processes related to climate change mitigation and adaptation but also include human values and perceptions among multiple sectors, and the interactions of these “soft” factors.
Prof. Promentilla received both his B.Sc.(1996) and M.Sc. (2000) degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of the Philippines Los Baños and Diliman, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Socio-Environmental Engineering from Hokkaido University in Japan (2006).