Research University Of Hong Kong

We regret to inform you that our website no longer supports Internet Explorer. To continue browsing the website, please consider using other browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox or Safari. A remarkable new treatment for leukaemia, invented and developed at HKU, is chemo-free and has a 97 per cent success rate, offering new hope and less treatment trauma for patients. HKU has set a new record with 54 academics named in Clarivate’s “Highly Cited Researchers 2025” list, placing HKU 13th globally among all institutions based on the total number of researcher designations—including those recognised... Copyright © 2025 The University of Hong Kong. All Rights Reserved.

We regret to inform you that our website no longer supports Internet Explorer. To continue browsing the website, please consider using other browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox or Safari. Architecture | Arts | Business and Economics | Dentistry | Education | Engineering | Law | Medicine | Science | Social Sciences | Independent of Faculty Copyright © 2025 The University of Hong Kong. All Rights Reserved. The School’s research mission is to advance the frontiers of business and economics knowledge by fostering innovative and interdisciplinary research that addresses significant regional and global issues.

The School has nine research centres that draw expertise from different fields for interdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange activities. Established in 1997, Asia Case Research Centre (ACRC) addresses a growing demand for research and instructive materials relating to Asian business, and now boasts a repository of context-rich cases drawn from a vast range... The Centre is committed to the advancement of learning and teaching in business education and strives to promote leading management thinking through research on the latest practices in the Asian business environment. The mission of the Centre for Financial Innovation and Development (CFID) is to enhance Hong Kong’s competitive edge as a regional financial centre in an age of global capital flow, to generate top quality... The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) is committed to connect research and practice, and create a vibrant and diverse community of entrepreneurs and innovators to drive positive changes in Hong Kong and Greater... With our teams and resources inside and outside Hong Kong, we aim at bridging the ecosystems in China and Overseas.

The Centre for Quantitative History (CQH) is a focal institution for coordinating and conducting big data-based historical inquiries with quantitative methods to construct a holistic picture of China’s past development, sponsored by the HKU... The focus of the Centre is on the study of the quantitative history of China. It is an area of excellence designated and funded by the Research Grants Council, a non-statutory advisory council functioning under the aegis of the University Grants Committee. We regret to inform you that our website no longer supports Internet Explorer. To continue browsing the website, please consider using other browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox or Safari. HKU is a comprehensive research-intensive institution engaging in innovative research with local, regional and global significance.

Our research policy is formulated to strengthen capabilities in both fundamental and outcome-driven research and knowledge exchange within a culture that enables our researchers to flourish and innovate. The University’s research strategies and policies are managed by the University Research Committee (URC), a committee of the Senate chaired by the Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research). The University’s vision for 2026–2035: Leadership for Impact We regret to inform you that our website no longer supports Internet Explorer. To continue browsing the website, please consider using other browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox or Safari. The University of Hong Kong has a highly talented pool of over 1,000 professoriate staff, along with more junior academics and research support staff.

Our researchers have an impressive track record in securing funding through competitive funding schemes, publishing their findings, and translating their research for the benefit of the local and global community. In 2025, Clarivate named 54 HKU scholars among the world’s most highly cited researchers and 232 in the world’s top 1% of scientists. HKU has about 3,500 research postgraduate students, with 12% coming from outside the Greater China region. Outstanding researchers from across the globe have joined HKU. Of the 1000+ professoriate staff, about 27% are from Hong Kong, 38% are from the Chinese Mainland, and 35% are from elsewhere around the world. (More details can be found here.)

HKU researchers are garnering recognition through memberships from prestigious academies around the world as well as in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland. Please click here for details. Our researchers have also received a wide range of international, national and local honours and awards. Notable examples include the Porter Medal, the American Chemical Society National Award, the Bailar Medal, State Natural Science Awards, Future Science Prizes, Excellent Young Scientist Fund awards and Changjiang Scholarships. (More information can be found in the Awards & Recognition section of the Academic Development website, in the University's Annual Report, in the First & Foremost summary of achievements and on the Research Services... Our on-campus facilities in observational astrophysics include a 40 cm diameter reflector telescope located on the top of the CYM physics building equipped with charged couple device (CCD) imager and spectrometer, and two 2.3...

For professional observational astrophysics research we win access to a wide range of cutting-edge international telescopes via competitive peer review. These include ground based facilities such as the Gemini 8-metre Telescopes in Chile and Hawaii, the 8-metre telescopes of the European Southern Observatory in Chile, telescopes of the Beijing Astronomical Observatories and South African... We also win access to space based facilities like the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The quality of our projects and proposals leads to success in gaining such access on a regular basis. We are currently building MoUs with key strategic partners in the mainland such as the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, the Space and Astronomy group at Nanjing University and the... These links will provide enhanced opportunities for our students in elite mainland research groups.

We focus on optical and electrical properties of nanostructures and emerging semiconductors. The laboratory is equipped with a home-made confocal spectroscopy system, a time-resolved spectroscopy system and an electric charactering system. We focus on optical and electrical properties of nanostructures and emerging semiconductors. The laboratory is equipped with a home-made confocal spectroscopy system, a time-resolved spectroscopy system and an electric charactering system. The laboratory is equipped with variable-temperature (4.2 K-300 K) photoluminescence (PL), variable-temperature (1.5 K-300 K) magneto-PL (up to 7 T) with super high spectral resolution, a confocal scanning Raman microscopy/spectroscopy system, broadband variable-temperature (8... The existing laser sources include He-Cd laser, He-Ne laser, Ar-Kr mixed gas laser, high-energy YAG pulse laser, and semiconductor laser diode array pumped femtosecond broadband lasers.

This laboratory is equipped with fume cupboards, tube furnaces, a spin-coater, two thermal evaporators, and an electron-beam/sputtering deposition system. Our material characterization facilities include UV/Vis/NIR spectrometers for LED characterization and setups for power conversion efficiency and external quantum efficiency measurements for solar cells. The University of Hong Kong is an English-speaking university that was founded in 1911. It has gained a reputation as a world-class comprehensive research university with an excellent research record and facilities. The University has over 2,000 teaching and research staff who were recruited globally. We encourage students of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds who wish to pursue further studies to join our postgraduate programmes.

The University provides excellent postgraduate training. We are actively seeking high-calibre candidates for full-time and part-time Research Degrees (MPhil and PhD), Taught Master and Doctoral Degrees, and Diploma and Certificate Programmes under the Faculties of Architecture, Arts, Business and Economics,... As a leading international university in Asia, The University of Hong Kong seeks to sustain and enhance its excellence as an institution of higher learning through outstanding teaching and world-class research so as to... HKU intends to be a world-class university with frontier research in critical areas through knowledge creation, translation, realisation and impact. HKU’s research policy is formulated to strengthen its capabilities in both fundamental and outcome-driven research and knowledge exchange within a culture that enables our researchers to flourish and innovate. Accommodation for non-local postgraduates is available at Residential Colleges, Morrison Hall, Ching Lin Terrace Residence, St.

John's College, Graduate House and Pokfield Road Residences. Unraveling the Mystery of Deconfined Quantum Critical Points Researchers from the University of Hong Kong, led by Professor Zi Yang Meng, along with international collaborators, have made significant progress toward resolving a contentious puzzle in quantum physics by determining when deconfined quantum... Noncollinear harmonic spectroscopy reveals crossover of strong-field effects The ability to control electron motion with light fields represents a transformative frontier in modern physics, enabling dynamic manipulation of material properties at ultrafast timescales. Yet, the complex interplay between light and excited carriers—via mechanisms such as the AC Stark...

A new glimpse into the “spooky” world of quantum physics Chen, Ho Chen, Yi Chow, Ka Ho Liu, Qi Qian, Chenxiong Yiu, Siu Ming (Group Leader) Chan, Hubert T.H. Chiribella, Giulio (Group Leader)Dos Santos Oliveira, Bruno CesarFeng, Weiming Huang, Zhiyi Lam, Tak Wah Ramanathan, Ravishankar Yang, Yuxiang Zhao, Qi Cui, HemingQiu, YimingWu, ChenshuWu, Chuan (Group Leader) Algorithms, Learning, Games, and Optimization Laboratory (ALGO Lab) CB-LG101 - Chan, Hubert T.H., Feng, Weiming, Huang, Zhiyi

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