About Asian Institute of Technology

The Asian Institute of Technology, founded in 1959, is an English-speaking international organization for higher education. It specializes in engineering, advanced technologies, sustainable development, and management and planning. 

Role and profile of key people

Simon Guerrero Cruz: representing PI in this consortium, a participant for Microbiology and Climate Change.  Profile: Microbial technology development for GHG mitigation in agricultural soils. GHG investigations in sewage transport networks and wastewater, to manage sewage infrastructure and develop mitigation strategies around microbial drivers of GHG in wastewater. Microbiology of circular economy, where microorganisms drive the recovery of energy and value from waste. I specifically focus on methanotrophic biorefineries, to produce biopolymers from methane gas from waste & wastewater. Microplastics’ fate and effect in diverse environments, e.g., wetlands such as mangroves, or wetlands for Nature Based Solutions (NBS).

Key Research | Facilities, Infrastructure and Equipment

AIT has land plots destined for field agricultural projects, and 11 greenhouses to perform mesocosms in pots which are normally used for abiotic stress testing by the Agricultural program within the institute. Hosting arrangements are secured, as the Institute counts with 3 student villas and 2 staff villas on campus with a capacity well over 1000 people and currently is below 50% of operation as due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Laboratories have general instrumentation to perform the analytical determinations needed in the working packages. 

Independent research premises?

Yes, all buildings and laboratories, next to the land and hosting infrastructure are from AIT’s under the auspices of the Thai government.