Physical Sciences Panel (General Research Fund and Other Funding Schemes for Individual Research)
(as at 6 February 2025)
Member Sphere of Interest
Chairman
Professor Wesley Cantwell*
 Interests in composites, polymers, fracture, adhesion, nanocomposites
Deputy Panel Chairman
Professor Jonathan Cooper* Interests in biomedical engineering, medical devices, biosensors, biomaterials, medical diagnostics
Members
Professor Mike Ashfold* Interests in physical chemistry/chemical physics, molecular photochemistry, spectroscopy and reaction dynamics, plasmas, plasma diagnosis, chemical vapour deposition, laser ablation, thin film growth and characterisation
Professor Isabelle Baraffe* Interests in Astrophysics
Professor Nigel Brandon* Interests in Fuel cells and electrolysers, Hydrogen energy, Catalysts and membranes
Professor Pierre Braunstein* Interests in Chemistry
Professor Philippa Browning* Interests in solar physics, solar activity, solar and stellar flares, magnetically-confined fusion, plasma physics theory, magnetohydrodynamics
Professor David Carey* Interests in materials physics, 2D materials, electronic materials, electronic devices,
Professor Gilles Chabrier* Interests in Astrophysics
Professor Yaojun Chen* Interests in graph theory, Ramsey theory, combinatorial optimization and some cross-discipline problems between graph theory and theoretic computer science
Professor Qiang Du* Interests in Mathematical modeling, Numerical analysis, Scientific computation with selected applications in physical, biological, materials, Data and information sciences.
Professor Shien-Ping Feng Interests in developing additives and chemicals to engineer electrochemical systems and material properties for thermocells, photovoltaics, and semiconductor manufacturing applications
Professor Les Field* Interests in organic chemistry, including synthetic organic chemistry, mechanistic organic chemistry and physical organic chemistry
Professor Meng Gao Interests in atmospheric sciences, climate sciences, atmospheric chemistry, environmental science
Professor Lancelot F. James Interests in Bayesian Nonparametric Statistics
Professor Xuechen Li Interests in chemical biology, organic chemistry, synthetic chemistry, drug discovery
Professor Yanyan Li* Interests in Nonlinear analysis, PDE
Professor Paul Mason* Interests in geology, geochemistry, earth sciences
Professor Aleksandar Mijatovic* Interests in probability and its applications: Markov chains, Levy processes, branching, simulation, MCMC; financial mathematics: risk management, hedging and price prediction, stochastic numerical methods
Professor Chung-Yu Mou* Interests in general condensed matter physics, topological materials, superconductivity, strong correlated electronic systems, quantum technology
Professor Pablo Ordejón* Interests in nanoscience, condensed matter, materials science, Ab-Initio simulations, molecular dynamics, density functional theory
Professor Didier Pribat* Interests in Nanoscience & Nanotechnologies, Crystal growth, Materials science
Professor Mogens Steffensen* Interests in Insurance mathematics, Financial mathematics and Applied probability
Professor Elizabeth A. Stone* Interests in Atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric aerosols, source apportionment
Professor Hongzhe Sun Interests in biocoordination chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, bismuth, inorganic chemical biology, metals in medicine, metalloproteins, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), metallomics, metalloproteomics, drug development, molecular imaging
Professor Min Sun Interests in sophisticated geochemical instrument and utilizing chemical and isotope data to solve outstanding scientific problems in earth sciences
Professor Judy Huixia Wang* Interests in Inference, Variable Selection, Measurement Error
Professor Bo Wu Interests in Planetary Mapping, Planetary Remote Sensing and Planetary Geomorphology
Professor Jianliang Xiao* Interests in Organic Synthesis and Catalysis
Professor Vivian W.W. Yam Interests in inorganic/organometallic chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, photophysics and photochemistry, and metal-based molecular functional materials for sensing, organic optoelectronics and energy research.
Professor Tong Yang Interests in Partial Differential Equations and Kinetic Theory
Professor Xin Yang* Interests in atmospheric environment
Professor Angus Hin Lap Yip Interests in Structure-property relationship study of organic and hybrid perovskite electronic devices; Device physics and photophysics of optoelectronic materials and devices; Emerging light emitting materials and devices; Printing and patterning techniques of flexible and large-area electronic devices; Design of new photovoltaic technology for building integration; Self-powered greenhouse with artificial lighting technology
Professor Jianzhen Yu Interests in atmospheric chemistry, aerosol chemistry; environmental analysis, environmental chemistry/instrumentation, air quality research
Professor Jianhua Zhao* Interests in condensed matter physics
Professor Jun Zou Interests in Numerical Solutions of Electromagnetic Maxwell Systems, Numerical Solutions of Interface Problems, Ill-posed Problems, Inverse Problems, Preconditioned Iterative Methods and Domain Decomposition Methods
Secretary
Ms Milly Ng Assistant Secretary General (Research)1, UGC

* Non-local Members