Professor Wesley Cantwell*

Composite materials, impact, lightweight aerospace structures, advanced manufacturing techniques, environmentally-friendly composites, polymers, fracture mechanics, dynamic properties of materials and smart structures

Professor Arieh Iserles*

Numerical analysis; approximation theory; PDEs; harmonic analysis; high-dimensional statistics; mathematical physics

Professor Simon Wan Chan

Analytical chemistry, Bioanalytical chemistry, Chemical toxicology, Food chemistry, Mass spectrometry

Professor Fu-rong Chen

3D atom dynamics of soft materials, Quantum Electron Microscope Design and Manufacture

Professor Wei Chen*

Interface-controlled nanocatalysis for energy and environmental research; Molecular-level interface engineering for organic electronic devices, organic photovoltaic cells, 2D- materials and nanostructured materials

Professor Xi Chen

Carbon capture and conversion materials, Nanomechanics, Surface wrinkling & morphogenesis, Energy storage (batteries & supercapacitors)

Professor Ming-Yen Cheng

Semiparametric and nonparametric modeling, High-dimensional data, Longitudinal/Functional data analysis, Clustering, classification and discrimination, Change-point analysis, Financial time series, Econometrics models

Professor Yun Chi

Organic and organometallic compounds and transition-metal coordination complexes with bright luminescence and associated properties

Professor Eric Tsz-shun Chung

Numerical Analyis, Scientific Computing, Computational Mathematics, Multiscale Methods, Multiscale Modeling, Model Reduction, Computational Physics, Computational Geosciences

Professor Fernando Corfu*

Geochronology (U–Pb dating, especially zircon and baddeleyite), Precambrian geology and crustal evolution, Tectonic and magmatic processes

Professor Xi Dai

Strongly correlated materials, Computational materials science, Quantum magnetism, Superconductors, Unconventional superconductors

Professor Walid Daoud

Approaches for harvesting light and kinetic energies, Hybrid nanogenerators for self-powered wearable electronics, Flexible organic based photovoltaics, Compatible energy storage batteries, Solar wearable self-cleaning nanotechnology

Professor Roberts Dar*

Imaging spectrometry, remote sensing of vegetation, spectroscopy (urban and natural cover), remote sensing of all elements of wildland fire, land-use/land-cover change, canopy structure with lidar, drought impacts, urban remote sensing, and trace gas mapping (mostly methane)

Professor Daniele Fausti*

Physics and Ultrafast dynamics in solid state

Professor Jimmy Chi-hung Fung

Atmospheric science and weather prediction, Regional climate change and variability, Multi-scale air quality modeling, Computational fluid dynamics, Environmental sustainability

Professor Shemin Ge*

Earth Sciences - mechanical interaction of groundwater and rock formation

Professor Jinlong Gong*

Heterogeneous catalysis, Reaction Engineering

Professor Jianhua Hao

Functional thin-films, two-dimensional layered materials and heterostructures; ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials and devices; luminescence and nanophosphors for photonics and biomedical applications

Professor Thomas Heine*

Theoretical materials science Computational chemistry, Energy & Fuels, Density-Functional Theory, Metal-Organic Frameworks, Theoretical Spectroscopy

Professor Keith Wing-kei Ho

Catalysis, photocatalysis and electrophotocatalysis; Fabrication of nanomaterials and nanotechnology for environmental applications; Artificial photosynthesis for energy conversion and environmental remediation; Air pollution control

Professor Alex Jen

Materials science; organic / hybrid functional materials and devices for photonics, energy, sensors, and nanomedicine

Professor Jimmy Jiao

Hydrogeology

Professor Chi Yung Jim

Urban ecology, Urban forestry, Urban soil science, Urban climatology, Urban green infrastructure, Green roofs, Green walls (vertical greening), Natural and artificial turf, Urban nature conservation

Professor Bangti Jin

Inverse problems, numerical analysis, nonlocal models, scientific machine learning, scientific computing

Professor Harm-Anton Klok*

Polymer design at nanoscale Biologically-inspired polymers

Professor Kelvin Sze-yin Leung

Chemistry and Environment - analytical spectrometry and environmental analytical chemistry

Professor Gang Li

Organic semiconductor, and organo-metal halide hybrid perovskite based thin-film optoelectronic devices

Professor Lain-Jong Lance Li*

Growth of large-area high-quality 2D semiconductors, Development of advanced device technologies and new architecture for advanced semiconductor nodes to continue the scaling of transistors, Energy efficient devices beyond Si technologies.

Professor Zhenyang Lin

Computational chemistry; organometallic chemistry; reaction mechanism; catalysis; structure and bonding

Professor Xing-yi Ling*

Nanoscience and nanotechnology; nanomaterials synthesis; inorganic nanoparticles; biosensor; surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS); self-assembly; plasmonics

Professor Bin Liu

Energy

Professor Kam-biu Liu

Paleotempestology, Coastal environmental changes, Biogeography and paleoecology of mangroves

Professor Xiaogang Liu*

Supramolecular coordination chemistry, Catalysis, Chemical sensors and biosensors, Optogenetics, Photon Upconversion, X-ray photonics

Professor Yang Lu

Experimental nanomechanics, Materials engineering, Nano-Manufacturing, Mechanical Metamaterial, Strain Engineering, Semiconductor technologies

Professor Alexis Markovits*

Applied quantum chemistry, Surface science, Heterogeneous catalysis

Professor Jean-Michel Henri Olivier More

Nonlinear Analysis, Differential Equations, Image Processing, Applied Mathematics

Professor Dennis Kee-pui Ng

Chemistry of functional dyes, focusing on their synthesis, supramolecular chemistry, bioconjugation, bioorthogonal chemistry, and applications in photodynamic therapy, bioimaging, and fluorescence sensing

Professor Meng Ni

Materials and Energy - fuel cells and rechargeable batteries; Electro-chemical water-splitting

Professor David Parker

Lanthanide chemistry, Supramolecular chemistry, Molecular Imaging

Professor Zhonghua Qiao

Numerical analysis and scientific computing

Professor Kangning Ren

Microfabrication and microfluidics, Biomaterial and soft matters, Analytical microdevices, Biomimicking and advanced coating technology

Professor Jason Robinson*

Materials Physics, Quantum Materials

Professor Minhua Shao

Battery; Electrocatalysis; Electrochemical Energy Technologies; Electrochemistry; Fuel cell

Professor Uwe Sonnewald*

Molecular mechanisms, Plant biochemistry, physiology, and biotechnology

Professor Defeng Sun

Large Scale Optimization, Nonsmooth Optimization, Optimization Sofware, Machine Learning Algorithms

Professor Jianwei Sun

Organic synthesis, homogeneous catalysis, asymmetric catalysis, medicinal chemistry, reaction mechanism

Professor Min Sun

Precambrian Geology, Tectonic evolution of North China, Paleo-climate reconstruction, Geology of orogenic belts, Isotope geochronology and Trace element geochemistry

Professor Fang-zhen Teng*

Geophysical Sciences, Mantle heterogeneity, Solar System, Environmental Chemistry, Extreme Environments

Professor Ophelia K. C. Tsui

Soft Condensed Matter Physics

Professor Dajun Wang

Physics - ultracold polar molecules; high resolution spectroscopy

Professor Jun Wang

Chemical Engineering

Professor Junhui Wang

Statistics, machine learning, big data, network model, causal inference

Professor Lai-Sheng Wang*

Nanoclusters, Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Boron Clusters & Borides, Gas-Phase Anions, Computational Chemistry

Professor Lianzhou Wang

Semiconductor Nanomaterials, Renewable Energy Technologies, Solar Fuels, Greenhouse Gas Conversion, Artificial Photosynthesis, Eco-friendly Solar Cells, Rechargeable Batteries, Integrated Energy Conversion and Storage

Professor Lin Wang*

Asian monsoon, Climate dynamics, Climate extremes, Stratosphere-troposphere interaction

Professor Wen-xiong Wang

Metal ecotoxicology, Nanotoxicology, Estuary pollution

Professor Kwok Yin Wong

Electrocatalysis and Photocatalysis, Biosensors, Green Chemistry, Antibiotic Development

Professor Jian Zhang

Structural Geology, Tectonics and Precambrian Geology

Ms Edith CHOI

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