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Last updated : 2020-12-8
Environmental Experts List
Name: CHAN Man Nin

Title: Associate Professor

Spoken Language: English, Cantonese

Area of Expertise: Air pollution, PM source and characterization

Faculty: Faculty of Science

Department: Earth System Science Programme
Tel: 3943 9863

Email: mnchan@cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: CHAN Ying Yang Emily

Title: Director of Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response / Professor

Spoken Language: English, Cantonese, Putonghua

Area of Expertise: Macro determinants of Health (Climate Change, Disaster and Humanitarian Crisis, Migrations)

Faculty: Faculty of Medicine

Department: The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care
Tel: 2252 8411

Email: emily.chan@cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: CHEN Yongqin David

Title: Professor

Spoken Language: English, Cantonese, Putonghua

Area of Expertise: Hydrology and Water Resources; Flood and Drought; Weather and Climate; China Environmental Issues

Faculty: Faculty of Social Science

Department: Department of Geography and Resource Management
Tel: 3943 6539

Email: ydavidchen@cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: LAU Ngar Cheung Gabriel

Title: Research Professor

Spoken Language: English, Cantonese

Area of Expertise: Climate Change and Variability; Characteristics of Weather; Climate phenomena

Faculty: Faculty of Social Science

Department: Department of Geography and Resource Management
Tel: 3943 9673

Email: gabriel.lau@cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: Lawal Mohammed MARAFA

Title: Professor

Spoken Language: English

Area of Expertise: Soils and Environment; Natural Resources Management; Ecotourism and Natural Heritage; Tourism and Environment; Urban Parks and Open Spaces

Faculty: Faculty of Social Science

Department: Department of Geography and Resource Management
Tel: 3943 6471

Email: lmmarafa@cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: LEE Shui Shan

Title: Research Professor / Deputy Director of Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, CUHK

Spoken Language: English, Cantonese, Putonghua

Area of Expertise: Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, with focus on the application of spatial, social and molecular techniques

Faculty: Faculty of Medicine

Department: The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care
Tel: 2252 8884

Email: sslee@cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: LIAO Wei Hsin

Title: Chairman / Professor

Spoken Language: English, Putonghua

Area of Expertise: Energy Harvesting; Nanotechnology

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

Department: Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
Tel: 3943 8341

Email: whliao@mae.cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: LIU Lin

Title: Associate Professor

Spoken Language: English, Putonghua

Area of Expertise: Polar changes, Geophysics, Remote Sensing

Faculty: Faculty of Science

Department: Earth System Science Programme
Tel: 3943 9862

Email: liulin@cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: NG Sai Leung

Title: Associate Professor

Spoken Language: English, Cantonese, Putonghua

Area of Expertise: Geopark; Geoconservation; Environmental Assessment; Quality of Life; Sustainable Development

Faculty: Faculty of Social Science

Department: Department of Geography and Resource Management
Tel: 3943 6527

Email: slng@cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: TAI Pui Kuen Amos

Title: Associate Professor

Spoken Language: English, Cantonese, Putonghua

Area of Expertise: Atmospheric science, atmosphere-biosphere interactions, air pollution, climate change, Earth system modeling, agricultural and forest meteorology

Faculty: Faculty of Science

Department: Earth System Science Programme
Tel: 3943 9687

Email: amostai@cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: WONG Teng Fong

Title: Research Professor

Spoken Language: English, Cantonese, Putonghua

Area of Expertise: Rock Physics, Earthquake Mechanics, Environmental Hydrogeology

Faculty: Faculty of Science

Department: Earth System Science Programme
Tel: 3943 3793

Email: tfwong@cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: WONG Tze Wai

Title: Adjunct Professor

Spoken Language: English, Cantonese, Putonghua

Area of Expertise: Air Pollution and Health; Environmental Epidemiology; Health Impact of Air Pollution Control; Dioxins and their Health Effects; Environmental Noise and Health; Infectious Diseases Epidemiology; Occupational Health

Faculty: Faculty of Medicine

Department: The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care
Tel: 2252 8777

Email: twwong@cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: XU Dongyan

Title: Associate Professor

Spoken Language: English, Putonghua

Area of Expertise: Thermoelectrics; Thermal Management; Nanoscale Heat Transfer; Energy Conversion and Storage

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

Department: Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
Tel: 3943 8045

Email: dyxu@mae.cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: XU Jianbin

Title: Professor

Spoken Language: English, Cantonese, Putonghua

Area of Expertise: Renewable Energy

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

Department: Department of Electronic Engineering
Tel: 3943 8297

Email: jbxu@ee.cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: XU Jiang

Title: Professor

Spoken Language: English, Cantonese, Putonghua

Area of Expertise: Urban and Regional Planning; Economic Geography; Transport Geography; Pearl River Delta Studies

Faculty: Faculty of Social Science

Department: Department of Geography and Resource Management
Tel: 3943 6475

Email: jiangxu@cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: XU Yuan

Title: Associate Professor

Spoken Language: English, Putonghua

Area of Expertise: Air Pollutant Mitigation Strategy and Policy; Energy Development; Innovation in the Field of Energy and the Environment

Faculty: Faculty of Social Science

Department: Department of Geography and Resource Management
Tel: 3943 6647

Email: yuanxu@cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: YU C M Jimmy

Title: Choh-Ming Li Professor of Chemistry

Spoken Language: English, Cantonese, Putonghua

Area of Expertise: Novel Nano-structured Materials and Environmental Applications of Photocatalysis

Faculty: Faculty of Science

Department: Department of Chemistry
Tel: 3943 6268

Email: jimyu@cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: ZHAO Ni

Title: Professor

Spoken Language: English, Putonghua

Area of Expertise: Solar energy research

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

Department: Department of Electronic Engineering
Tel: 3943 4347

Email: nzhao@ee.cuhk.edu.hk
 
Name: ZHAO Yuhong

Title: Associate Professor

Spoken Language: English, Putonghua

Area of Expertise: Chinese environmental law and policy

Faculty: Faculty of Law

Department:
Tel: 3943 1043

Email: yuhong.zhao@cuhk.edu.hk