Professor Chun Kit Kwok, Associate Professor from the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the 2024 RNA Society Early-Career Research Award. He is the first Hong Kong scientist awarded in this early-career category and the only Chinese among all awardees this year.

Nine scholars from CityU are awarded the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Research Grants Council (NSFC/RGC) Collaborative Research Scheme (CRS) and Joint Research Scheme (JRS) funding for the year 2023/24.

The State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution (SKLMP) at CityU was awarded the prestigious Gold Award at the Hong Kong Green Innovations Award (HKGIA) as part of the 2022 Hong Kong Awards for Environmental Excellence (HKAEE). This recognition highlights the remarkable achievements of their team in the field of green innovation. Organised by the Environmental Campaign Committee of HKSAR Government, the HKAEE is renowned as the city’s annual “Oscars of Environmental Protection.”

The College of Science is proud to announce that 10 scientists have been listed as Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2023.

Research achievements of Professor Kenneth Leung, Associate Dean (Research and Postgraduate Education) of the College of Science at CityU, were recently featured in a news article on the website of The Croucher Foundation.

Five CityU young academics have been awarded the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macau) by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) for 2023, three of which are from the College of Science.