Martin Man-chun Li   李文俊

Associate Professor

Address:
Department of Mathematics
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Rm 236, Lady Shaw Building
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

Phone: (+852) 3943-1851
Email: martinli@math.cuhk.edu.hk


Education:

  • PhD, Stanford University (2011) - Supervisor: Prof. Richard Schoen
  • BSc, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2006)


Academic Employment:

  • Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2020-now)
  • Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2014-20)
  • Postdoctoral fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013-14) - Mentor: Prof. Tobias Colding
  • Postdoctoral fellow, The University of British Columbia (2011-13) - Mentor: Prof. Ailana Fraser


Research Interests:

  • Geometric Analysis, Geometric Partial Differential Equations, General Relativity


Honors/awards:

  • Hong Kong Mathematical Society Young Scholar Award (2021)
  • CUHK Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award (2020)
  • NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Fund (Hong Kong and Macau) (2020)
  • Croucher Fellowship for Postdoctoral Research (2013)
  • Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowships for Overseas Studies (2006)


Major Research Grants:

  • RGC General Research Fund (2022/23) 
    Project Title: Geometric problems in mathematical general relativity - HK$1,092,000 - ongoing
  • RGC General Research Fund (2021/22) 
    Project Title: Singularity analysis in minimal surface theory - HK$486,015 - ongoing
  • NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Fund (Hong Kong and Macao) (2020) 
    Project Title: Geometric Analysis - RMB$1,200,000 - ongoing
  • RGC General Research Fund (2020/21) 
    Project Title:     On higher-order isoperimetric inequality - HK$599,861 - ongoing
  • RGC General Research Fund (2019/20)
    Project Title: Geometric variational problems and nonlinear partial differential equations     - HK$332,261 - ongoing
  • RGC General Research Fund (2016/17)
    Project Title: Global questions in differential geometry on holographic principles     - HK$488,501 - completed
  • RGC Early Career Scheme (2015/16)
    Project Title: Min-max constructions in geometry and applications     - HK$751,690 - completed


Current Students/Postdocs:

  • Yizi Wang, MPhil (2019-2021) & PhD (2021 - now)

**Graduate students and postdoc positions available. Please contact me via email.**


Past Students/Postdocs mentored:

  • Gaoming Wang, PhD (2018-2022) - current Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell
  • Yiqi Huang, MPhil (2020-2022) - currently PhD student at MIT
  • Ho Tin Leung, MPhil (2020-2022) - currently self-employed
  • Shanjiang Chen, PhD (2016-2020) - currently high school teacher in China
  • Xiaoxiang Chai, PhD (2015 - 2018) - currently Postdoc at KIAS
  • Yohsuke Imagi, Postdoc (2017 - 2018) - currently Assistant Professor at ShanghaiTech University
  • Chi-Fai Chau, MPhil (2015 - 2017) - currently PhD student at UC Irvine

Other visiting students mentored:

  • Sven Hirsch (2018 summer) - currently PhD student at Duke
  • Yichao Hu (2018 summer) - currently PhD student at UCL 
  • Jinyu Guo (2019 Fall) - currently PhD student at Xiamen University


ResearcherID: Q-4310-2018
ORCID: 0000-0002-1877-9409

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