Physical Sciences Panel (Joint Research Schemes)
(as at 30 November 2023)
Member Sphere of Interest
Chairman
Professor Wesley Cantwell* Lightweight materials; nanomaterials for aerospace applications; additive manufacturing; polymers materials; composites materials
Deputy Chairman
Professor Arieh Iserles* Numerical analysis; approximation theory; PDEs; harmonic analysis; high-dimensional statistics; mathematical physics
Members
Professor Pierre Braunstein* Molecular chemistry; reactivity; catalysis; molecular precursors; inorganic materials; nanoparticles; catalytic properties
Professor Wesley Cantwell* Lightweight materials; nanomaterials for aerospace applications; additive manufacturing;polymers materials; composites materials
Professor Arthur Chan* Environmental and atmospheric chemistry
Professor Yun Chi Chemical sciences; photophysical and opto-electrical properties of organic materials
Professor Eric Tsz-shun Chung Applied mathematics; computational wave propagation; fluid flow
Professor Felipe Cucker Applied & Pure mathematics - foundational numerical algorithms
Professor Shien-ping Feng Chemical Engineering - electrochemical system design and materials engineering for energy applications
Professor Jimmy Chi-hung Fung Earth sciences; meteorology; air pollution problems
Professor Shemin Ge* Earth Sciences - mechanical interaction of groundwater and rock formation
Professor Alex Jen Materials science; organic / hybrid functional materials and devices for photonics, energy, sensors, and nanomedicine
Professor Jimmy Jiao Hydrogeology; hydrogeo chemistry; groundwater aquifer
Professor Daniel Shu-ping Lau Nanomaterials; 2D materials; energy materials; synthesis; characteization; properties; optical properties; electronic properties; optoelectronic devices; electronic devices
Professor Chun-sing Lee Chemical sciences; biomedical materials; nanoscience and nanotechnology; organic optoelectronics
Professor Sze-yin Kelvin Leung Chemistry and environment - analytical spectrometry and environmental analytical chemistry
Professor Zhenyang Lin Computational, coordination, organometallic chemistry
Professor Xing-yi Ling* Chemical sciences – chemistry; nanotechnology
Professor Chengde Mao* Supramolecular chemistry of nucleic acids; DNA/RNA self-assembly; DNA nanostructures; DNA nanomaterials; DNA nanotechnology; DNA nanomachines
Professor Alexis Markovits* Quantum chemistry
Professor Dennis Kee-pui Ng Chemical sciences; chemistry of functional dyes on biomedical applications
Professor Meng Ni Materials and energy - fuel cells and rechargeable batteries; electro-chemical water-splitting
Professor Andrey Rogach Nanomaterials; optical spectroscopy; energy; chemical sciences; materials sciences; physics
Professor Defeng Sun Applied mathematics; sparse newton methods; matrix optimisation
Professor Jianwei Sun Chemistry - enantioselective reactions; heterocyclic scaffolds; synthetic organic chemistry
Professor Ophelia K. C. Tsui Physics
Professor Dajun Wang Physics - ultracold polar molecules; high resolution spectroscopy
Professor Jianfang Wang Nanoscience and nanotechnology; photocatalysis; inroganic materials; functional materials; nanophotonics; inorganic synthesis; nanoplasmonics; metal nanocrystals; metal oxide nanomaterials
Professor Junhui Wang Probability and statistics; statistical machine learning and its applications
Professor Teng-fong Wong Earth and environmental science; natural resources; oil and gas; hydrology; geophysics eathquake machanics
Professor Zhongping Yao Mass spectrometry; analytical chemistry; chemical biology; strutural biology; proteomics; metabolomics; food safety; molecular assembly and recognition; protein structures, dynamics and interactions; mechanistic study and biomarker discovery of diseases and biological processes; fundamentals; developments and applications of mass spectrometry
Professor Qiming Zhou Geography; geographical information science; remote sensing
Professor Jun Zou Numerical solutions of electromagnetic maxwell systems; numerical solutions of interface problems; Ill-posed Problems; inverse problems; preconditioned iterative methods; domain decomposition methods; numerical methods of partial differential equations; numerical analysis; partial differential equations; inverse problems; scientific computing
Secretary
Ms Milly NG Assistant Secretary-General (Research)1, UGC

*Non-local Members