by admin | Nov 23, 2023
The existence of dark matter (DM), the mysterious substance that makes up 80 per cent of the universe’s mass, was first reliably inferred in the 1930s, although not fully recognised until the 1970s. What particle makes up DM, however, remains an enigma. For decades,...
by admin | Nov 23, 2023
A proud native of Scotland, Professor Sir Fraser Stoddart comes to HKU after a remarkable career that has included time at top universities around the world, most recently at the renowned Northwestern University in the US. Retirement was looming, but Professor...
by admin | May 23, 2023
For years, data science was the purview of engineers and computer scientists, among them Professor Ma Yi, Chair Professor and Director of the HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science (IDS) and an expert in computer vision. But recently it has reached a...
by admin | May 17, 2023
When Professor Zhou Qiang took up deanship of the Faculty of Science last autumn, he arrived in a place with several stellar achievements. Six professorial staff were among the top one per cent of highly cited researchers in their fields in 2022 (according to...
by admin | May 15, 2023
Located on a rocky peninsula on the southside of Hong Kong, on the shores of Hong Kong’s only Marine Reserve, the Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) is one of the premiere coastal research centres in Asia. Recent expansion work has included state-of-the-art...
