CityU Science Garners Four Awards at Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days 2022 Researchers at CityU College of Science shined at the Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days (IGED) 2022 by winning a total of 4 awards, including three Silver Medals and one Bronze Medal. Their success demonstrates the College’s excellence in research and innovation.

Six scientists at the College of Science, City University of Hong Kong have been listed as Clarivate Analytics’ Highly Cited Researchers 2021.

A research project led by Professor Alex JEN, Lee Shau Kee Chair Professor of Materials Science, entitled “Development of Printable Perovskite Solar Cells for Transformative Clean Energy and Sustainable Society”, has been selected as one of the first eight approved projects (out of more than 190 applications) of the Green Tech Fund (GTF).

The State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution (SKLMP) at CityU has been endorsed by the United Nations (UN) to initiate a ten-year "Global Estuaries Monitoring (GEM)" Programme to collect and study environmental pollutants in the estuaries of major cities around the globe so as to formulate a long-term policy of promoting clean estuaries.

A research team of marine ecologists led by Professor Kenneth Leung Mei-yee, Director of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and Chair Professor of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, has generated promising results for enhancing marine biodiversity on seawalls in the western waters of Hong Kong via eco-engineered tiles.

Dr Chun Kit Kwok, Assistant Professor from the Department of Chemistry, has received the “Croucher Innovation Awards” presented by the Croucher Foundation for his research on RNA (ribonucleic acid).