Prof. Chan King-ming received his BSc and MPhil from the Department of Biology, CUHK. He obtained his PhD from Memorial University of Newfoundland at St. John’s in Canada. Before joining CUHK, he worked at Queen’s University in Canada and the Center of Marine Biotechnology at Baltimore. Professor Chan joined the Department of Biochemistry as a lecturer in 1992 and he is now an associate professor and director of the Environmental Science Programme, School of Life Sciences. His research interests cover environmental policy, aquatic toxicology, marine biotechnology, and fish endocrinology.