Welcome to Royston Uning's Personal Website! 

Short Bio

Royston Uning is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Malaysia, and a visiting researcher at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan. He studies volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emission sources, composition, and their role in recent atmospheric air quality (e.g., ozone). In 2024, he was invited to speak at a highly prestigious conference, the Gordon Research Conference Meeting of Biogenic Hydrocarbons and the Atmosphere, held in Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain. His research profile was also featured in one of the Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) research project workshop reports, "Frontiers in ocean-atmosphere exchange: Air-sea interface and fluxes of mass and energy," which was held at the Institut d'Études Scientifiques de Cargèse (IESC), France. Currently, he serves as one of the SOLAS Southeast Asia Regional Panels.

He received the "Best Undergraduate Dissertation" award in Solid State Science from the Malaysian Solid State Science and Technology Society (MASS). He also received twice the "Best Oral Presenter" award at scientific conferences during his graduate studies. He authored and co-authored more than 10 peer-reviewed research articles during his PhD years and published 7 peer-reviewed research articles as the first author during his postdoctoral years at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia, and the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan.

Outside of work, he enjoys spending time by the sea and mountain biking. He is originally from Sabah, Malaysia, where he currently lives. 

E-Mail: uning@ums.edu.my (work)/uningroyston@gmail.com (personal).