Professor Raymond Chan, Dean of the College of Science, Dr Condon Lau, Associate Professor of the Department of Physics, and Dr Yun Wah Lam, Associate Professor of the Department of Chemistry, delivered talks for the “Science in the Public Service” during its 2020 delivery.

Scientists from the College of Science have been listed as the “Highly Cited Researchers” by Clarivate Analytics for 2020 in respective categories of Chemistry, Cross-Field, Engineering and Materials Science.

The College of Science has launched its CityU STEM Series, a video series with fruitful Science content about Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics. Each video is guided by a CityU scientist with content suitable for students of secondary schools.

Columbia University accepted 7 students from the College of Science, including 4 from Computing Mathematics and 3 from Applied Physics, into the Joint Bachelor’s Degree Program for 2020 entry, marking a significant increase in the acceptance rate this year.

Dr Ivan Valerievich Borzenets, Assistant Professor at CityU’s Department of Physics, collaborated with scientists from Germany, Japan, and Korea on the World’s First Experimental Observation of a Kondo Cloud.

Professor Xunli Wang, Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Physics, has been elected Fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America for his “innovative neutron scattering studies at the interface between condensed matter physics and engineering materials science, and for the development of new neutron instrumentation to enable these seminal studies”.