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Wai-Yeung Wong received his BSc (1992) and PhD (1995) degrees from the University of Hong Kong. After a postdoctoral year with Prof. F. Albert Cotton in Texas A&M University in 1996, he worked for Profs. The Lord Jack Lewis (FRS) and Paul R. Raithby at the University of Cambridge in 1997. He joined Hong Kong Baptist University as an Assistant Professor in 1998, rising through the academic ranks to Chair Professor in Chemistry in 2011 at the age of 40. Professor Wong’s research interest focuses on synthetic inorganic/organometallic chemistry and materials chemistry. He is internationally renowned for his research in metallopolymers and metallo-organic molecules with energy functions and photofunctional properties.
Professor Wong has a distinguished publication record of >420 scientific articles to date and his current h-index is 54. He becomes the first Chinese scientist to be presented with the Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2010. He has also won the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship Award in 2009, FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award in 2011, Distinguished Lectureship Award from The Chemical Society of Japan and Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation in 2012. Recently, he received the State Natural Science Award (Second-class) of P.R. China in 2013. Professor Wong is currently the Regional Editor (Japan and East Asia) of Journal of Organometallic Chemistry and Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry C, and serves on the editorial/international advisory boards of Polymer Chemistry,Chemistry: An Asian Journal, Dalton Transactions, Dyes and Pigments,Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Macromolecular Chemistry & Physics,Comments on Inorganic Chemistry etc. At present, he is the Chairman of the Hong Kong Chemical Society and Secretary of Royal Society of Chemistry (Hong Kong Section). |
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