People

Research

Professor Xiaoyu LI   李笑宇
Head of Department
Professor 教授
B.Sc. (Peking); Ph.D. (Chicago); Postdoctoral (Harvard)
Room 8N-22, Kadoorie Biological Sciences Building
(852) 3917 3383

Research Topics:   Drug discovery, Molecular probes, DNA-encoded library, Target identification, Protein labeling

Self Photos / Files - orcid  0000-0002-8907-6727
Zhou Guangzhao Professorship in Natural Sciences
Professor Chi-Ming CHE   支志明
Chair Professor 講座教授
B.Sc., Ph.D. (HKU); Postdoctoral (Caltech)
(1) 505 Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building, Main Campus; (2) Room 810D The Hong Kong Jockey Club Building for Interdisciplinary Research, Sassoon Road Campus
(852) 3917 2154 (Main Campus); (852) 2831 5558 (Sassoon Road Campus)

Research Topics:   Inorganic and organic synthesis, Green oxidations, Reactive metal-ligand multiple-bonded metal complexes​, C-H functionalizations, Luminescent materials, Self-assembled nanostructured materials, Bioinorganic chemistry, ​Inorganic medicines

Self Photos / Files - orcid 0000-0002-2554-7219
 Job Opportunities
Professor Hongjie DAI   戴宏杰
Professor, Chair of Chemistry 講座教授
B.Sc. (TsingHua); M.Sc. (Columbia); Ph.D (Harvard); Postdoctoral (Harvard); Postdoctoral (Rice)
Room 301, Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building
(852) 3910 2208

Research Topics:   
Professor Sir Fraser STODDART
Chair Professor
BSc(Chem)/PhD/DSc (Edinburgh)
Room 812 Meng Wah Complex
(852) 3910 2206

Research Topics:   
Norman and Cecilia Yip Professorship in Bioinorganic Chemistry
Professor Hongzhe SUN   孫紅哲
Chair Professor 講座教授
B.Sc. (Huabei); M.Sc. (CAS Wuhan); Ph.D. (London)
Room 304, Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building
(852) 3917 8974

Research Topics:   Biosensor, Antibiotics, Metallomics, Metalloproteomics, Integrative biology

Self Photos / Files - orcid  0000-0001-6697-6899
Philip Wong Wilson Wong Professorship in Chemistry and Energy
Professor Vivian Wing-Wah YAM   任詠華
Chair Professor 講座教授
B.Sc., Ph.D. (HKU)
Room 504, Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building
(852) 3917 2153

Research Topics:   Supramolecular assembly, Luminescence, Excited states, Solar energy research, Functional materials, Molecular materials, Optical memory/resistive memory, Chemosensing & bioimaging, Organic electronics/optoelectronics

Self Photos / Files - orcid 0000-0001-8349-4429
Professor David Lee PHILLIPS   裴達偉
Chair Professor 講座教授
B.Sc. (Iowa); Ph.D. (UC Irvine); Postdoctoral (Rochester)
Room 104, Hui Oi Chow Science Building
(852) 3917 2160

Research Topics:   Time-resolved spectroscopy, Reactive intermediates and reaction mechanisms, Water assisted reactions, Photoredox reactions, Photodeprotection, Photoactivated cancer therapy and drug delivery

Self Photos / Files - orcid 0000-0002-8606-8780
Professor Guanhua CHEN   陳冠華
Professor, Chair of Theoretical Chemistry 講座教授
B.Sc. (Fudan); Ph.D. (Caltech); Postdoctoral (Rochester)
Room 605, Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building
(852) 3917 2164

Professor Zheng Xiao GUO 郭正曉
Professor, Chair of Chemistry and Materials Science 講座教授
B.Sc. (Northeastern); Ph.D. (Manchester)
Room 108, Hui Oi Chow Science Building
3917 5433

Professor Pauline CHIU   趙寶貽
Professor 教授
B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D (Toronto); Postdoctoral (Columbia); SFHEA
Room 604, Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building, HKU
(852) 3917 8949

Research Topics:   Natural product total synthesis, Synthetic methodology development, Catalysis, Small molecule therapeutics, Medicinal chemistry

Self Photos / Files - orcid 0000-0001-5081-4756
Professor David Xiang LI   李祥
Professor 教授
B.Sc. (Fudan); Ph.D. (HKU); Postdoctoral (Rockefeller)
Room 8N-12, Kadoorie Biological Sciences Building
(852) 3917 3777

Research Topics:   Protein-protein interaction, Posttranslational modification, Epigenetics, Chemical proteomics, Target identification

Self Photos / Files - orcid 0000-0002-2797-4134
Morningside Professorship in Chemical Biology
Professor Xuechen LI   李學臣
Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) of Faculty of Science
Professor 教授
B.Sc. (Nankai); M.Sc. (Alberta); Ph.D. (Harvard); Postdoctoral (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center/Columbia)
Room 405, Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building
(852) 3917 4992

Research Topics:   Protein chemical synthesis, Protein chemistry, Chemical glycobiology, Protein bioconjugation, Drugs, Antibiotics, Antibody-drug conjugates antiviral agents, Peptide, Carbohydrate, Natural product, Total synthesis, Peptide modification

Self Photos / Files - orcid 0000-0001-5465-7727
 Job Opportunities
Professor Jinyao TANG   唐晋堯
Associate Head (Research)
Professor 教授
B.A. (USTC); Ph.D. (Columbia); Postdoctoral (UCBerkeley)
Room 402, Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building
(852) 3917 4696

Research Topic:   Soft materials, Active matter physics, Renewable energy, Nanomaterials

Self Photos / Files - orcid 0000-0002-0051-148X
Professor Ho Yu AU-YEUNG   歐陽灝宇
Associate Professor 副教授
B.Sc., MPhil (CUHK); Ph.D. (Cambridge); Postdoctoral (UCBerkeley)
Room 503, Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building
(852) 3917 4697

Research Topics:   Supramolecular chemistry, Mechanically interlocked molecules, Molecular machines, Molecular recognition, Chemical sensing

Self Photos / Files - orcid  0000-0002-7216-7921
Professor Ivan Keung CHU   朱强
Associate Professor 副教授
B.Sc. (Victoria); Ph.D. (CityUHK)
Room 502, Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building
(852) 3917 2152

Research Topics:   Mass spectrometry, Ion-chemistry, Radical-mediated protein oxidation, Separation

Self Photos / Files - orcid 0000-0003-0652-975X
Professor Haibo JIANG  蔣海波
Associate Professor 副教授
B.Sc (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Ph.D. (Oxford); Postdoctoral (Oxford)
Room 603, Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building
(852) 3917 2155

Research Topics: Imaging, Metabolism, Cell biology, Chemical biology

 

Self Photos / Files - orcid 0000-0002-2384-4826
Professor Kou OKURO  大黒 耕
Associate Professor 副教授
B.Sc. (Keio); M. Eng., Ph.D. (Tokyo)
Room 106, Hui Oi Chow Science Building
(852) 3910 2195

Research Topics:   Supramolecular chemistry, Biomaterials, Soft materials, Optochemical biology 

Self Photos / Files - orcid  0000-0003-0445-6358
Professor Patrick Henry TOY
Associate Professor
B.Sc. (Ohio State); Ph.D. (Wayne State); Postdoctoral (Scripps)
Room 404, Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building
(852) 3917 2167

Research Topics:   Synthesis, Catalysis

Self Photos / Files - orcid 0000-0002-8811-7857
Professor Yufeng WANG   王宇鋒
Associate Professor 副教授
B.Sc. (Peking); Ph.D. (NYU); Postdoctoral (MIT)
Room 408, Hui Oi Chow Science Building
(852) 3917 6073

Research Topics:   Soft materials, Polymer, Colloid, Self-assembly

Self Photos / Files - orcid 0000-0001-9409-7250
Professor Jun YANG   楊軍
Associate Professor 副教授
B.Sc., M.Sc. (Peking); Ph.D. (Köln); Postdoctoral (Princeton)
Room 409, Hui Oi Chow Science Building
(852) 3917 6074

Research Topics:   Quantum chemistry, Electronic structure theory, Low-scaling methodology, Computational modelling

Self Photos / Files - orcid 0000-0001-8701-9297
Professor Aspen Xiaoyang CHEN
Assistant Professor
B.Sc. (Fudan); Ph.D. (Princeton); Postdoctoral (Northwestern)
Room 105, Hui Oi Chow Science Building
(852) 3917 6076

Research Topics:   Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Catalysis

Self Photos / Files - orcid  0000-0003-3449-4136
Professor Jian HE   何健
Assistant Professor 助理教授
B.Sc. (Zhejiang); Ph.D. (Scripps); Postdoctoral (Caltech)
Room 103, Hui Oi Chow Science Building
(852) 3910 2193

Research Topics:   Catalysis, Metal organic frameworks, Photochemistry, Radical chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Artificial enzymes

Self Photos / Files - orcid  0000-0002-3388-3239
Professor Zhongxing HUANG   黃重行
Assistant Professor 助理教授
B.Sc. (Peking); Ph.D. (Chicago); Postdoctoral (Stanford)
Room 102, Hui Oi Chow Science Building
(852) 3910 2192

Research Topics:   Methodology, Catalysis, Green chemistry, Renewable energy conversion

Self Photos / Files - orcid  0000-0003-0196-3469
Professor Seungkyu LEE
Assistant Professor
B.Sc. (SKKU); M.Sc. (KAIST); Ph.D. (UC Berkeley); Postdoctoral (Northwestern)
Room 302, Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building
(852) 3910 2194

Research Topics: Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Metal-Organic Frameworks, Covalent Organic Frameworks, Nanotechnology, Hydrogen Storage, Energy Storage, and X-ray Crystallography

Self Photos / Files - orcid 0000-0003-3680-5882
Professor Ying LI   李瑛
Assistant Professor 助理教授
B.Sc. (Tsinghua); Ph.D. (Ilinois); Postdoctoral (UCIrvine)
Room 406, Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building
(852) 3917 4824

Group Website:   https://yl-hku-rna.weebly.com/

Research Topics:   RNA localization, RNA modification, RNA-protein interaction, Biomaterials

Self Photos / Files - orcid  0000-0002-0438-449X
Professor Philip Yong-Xin LI   李泳新
Assistant Professor 助理教授
B.Sc. (Peking); Ph.D., Postdoctoral (HKUST)
Room 305, Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building
(852) 3917 2156

Research Topics:  Natural Products, Microbiome, Big data genome mining, Synthetic biology, Biosynthesis

Self Photos / Files - orcid  0000-0003-4422-2302
Professor Junzhi LIU   劉俊治
Assistant Professor 助理教授
B.Sc. (Hebei); M.Sc. (Sichuan); Ph.D. (Mainz); Postdoctoral (TUDresden)
Room 405, Hui Oi Chow Science Building
(852) 3917 4201

Research Topics:   Organic Synthesis, Polymer Chemistry, Organic Functional Materials, Organic Electronic Devices

Self Photos / Files - orcid  0000-0001-7146-0942
Professor Edmund Chun Ming TSE   謝俊銘
Assistant Professor 助理教授
B.Sc. (Virginia); Ph.D. (Illinois); Postdoctoral (Caltech)
Room 403, Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building
(852) 3917 8943

Research Topics:   Electrocatalysis, Bio​-inspired interfaces, Bioinorganic enyzmes, Self-assembling materials, Renewable energy, Biochemical pathways, Cancer bioinformatics

Self Photos / Files - orcid  0000-0002-9313-1290
 Job Opportunities

Group Website (Worldwide): https://et-lab-hku.weebly.com/

Group Website (Mainland): https://www.etlab.hku.hk/