Dr. Chee Kong YAP is an academician for more than 16 years in UPM and 20 years as a researcher, He has supervised more than 73 undergraduates and 30 postgraduate students (as a Chairman and Member of Supervisory Committee) in the fields of ecotoxicology, environmental biology, environmental sciences, water quality and ecotoxicological genetics. His research area is mainly focused on biomonitoring and monitoring of inorganic pollutants (heavy metals) in the aquatic environment using mollusks and sediments. He has published more than 274 papers in refereed academic journals, 4 books, 32 book chapters. Until April 2019, 194 of them have now been indexed in Elsevier’s Scopus with an H-index of 24 (>2000 citations).

His research area is mainly focused on biomonitoring and monitoring of inorganic pollutants (heavy metals) in the aquatic environment using mollusks and sediments.