Hong Kong's oldest university, world-renowned in medicine and public health, and celebrated across the sciences, engineering, computing, economics, law, and the humanities.
24 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
Dean of Medicine and Chair Professor of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology
Department of Medicine
A rheumatologist who reformed Hong Kong's medical curriculum, he now leads the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine as Dean.
Chair of Infectious Diseases
Department of Microbiology
He helped identify the SARS coronavirus, has discovered over 100 novel microbes, and steadied Hong Kong through its hardest outbreaks.
Chair Professor of Epidemiology
School of Public Health
His careful epidemiology of influenza and COVID-19 has shaped how the world measures and slows respiratory infections.
Emeritus Professor and former Tam Wah-Ching Professor in Medical Science
School of Public Health
A pioneering virologist of diseases at the animal-human interface, he co-directed WHO reference laboratories for SARS and avian influenza.
Emeritus Professor and Rosie TT Young Professor in Endocrinology and Metabolism
Department of Medicine
The first woman to head HKU's Department of Medicine, her diabetes and obesity research uncovered adipokines that drive metabolic disease.
Dean and Warren Chan Professor of Human Rights and Responsibilities
Faculty of Law
A scholar of Chinese law and human rights, he leads HKU's Faculty of Law as its Dean.
Clinical Professor and Chief of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Faculty of Dentistry
He advances computer-assisted surgery and 3D printing to rebuild the faces of head-and-neck cancer patients at a world-leading dental school.
Professor and Division Head, School of Computing and Data Science
School of Computing and Data Science
He builds systems for large-scale graph and uncertain-data analytics and helped launch HKU's new School of Computing and Data Science.
Chair Professor, School of Computing and Data Science
School of Computing and Data Science
His research in computer vision and deep learning brings artificial intelligence into medical imaging and computer graphics.
Chair of Economics and Philip Wong Kennedy Wong Professor in Political Economy
HKU Business School
A University of Chicago-trained economist, he founded Hong Kong's leading economic research centres and studies housing, inequality, and mobility.
Victor and William Fung Professor in Economics and Director, Asia Global Institute
HKU Business School
An MIT-trained trade economist, he studies global production networks and directs HKU's Asia Global Institute.
Cheng Chan Lan Yue Professor in Constitutional Law
Faculty of Law
A leading scholar of the Hong Kong Basic Law and Chinese constitutional law, he has taught and shaped the field for over four decades.
Honorary Professor and former Dean of Law
Faculty of Law
Hong Kong's first Honorary Senior Counsel, he led the Faculty of Law and still teaches its human rights course.
Professor and Chair of Learning Sciences and Technology
Faculty of Education
Founding director of HKU's Centre for Information Technology in Education, she studies how digital tools can transform learning at scale.
Philip Wong Wilson Wong Professor in Energy and Chair Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
A pioneer of luminescent metal-based materials and solar energy chemistry, she was among the youngest scholars elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Zhou Guangzhao Professor in Natural Sciences
Department of Chemistry
Director of the State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, his work bridges coordination chemistry with catalysis, materials, and medicine.
Professor of Physics and Director, Laboratory for Space Research
Department of Physics
He has discovered more planetary nebulae than any astronomer in history and directs HKU's Laboratory for Space Research.
Emeritus Professor of Ecology and Biodiversity
School of Biological Sciences
A leading voice for freshwater biodiversity, he spent decades studying and defending Asia's rivers and Hong Kong's wetlands.
Philip K H Wong Wilson K L Wong Professor and Chair of Power Electronics
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
His inventions in wireless power and energy-efficient lighting won him fellowships of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering and the US National Academy of Inventors.
Chair of Materials Technology and Head of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
He designs the next generation of super-strong steels and alloys and directs HKU's Centre for Structural Materials.
Chair Professor of Humanities
Department of History
The most widely read living historian of modern China, his People's Trilogy retells the Mao years from the archives.
Chair Professor of Music
Department of Music
A Fellow of the British Academy and past President of the International Musicological Society, he champions a global approach to music studies.
Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Directing the CARE Laboratory, she studies coping, resilience, and the psychology of our digital lives across cultures.
Dean of Architecture and Chair Professor in Urban Planning and Development Economics
Department of Urban Planning and Design
An urban theorist of healthy, well-planned cities, he leads HKU's Faculty of Architecture as Dean.
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