Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1981

Dr. J.D. Young Dr. Lutz Bieg Dr. Liu Kwok-leung Mr. Victor Tse-Kay To in Biochemistry at Edinburgh University, where he also obtained his Ph.D. degree. In 1974, he joined the Agricultural Research Council Institute of Animal Physiology at Babraham, Cambridge, U.K. as a re­ search scientist in the Department of Cell Biology. His major research interest is the biochemistry, physiology and genetic control of red blood cell membrane transport. Dr. Young is a member of The Biochemical Society (London), The Physiological Society (London), The British Biophysical Society and the International Society for Animal Blood Group Research. In September 1980 he was elected to the Membrane Group Committee of The Biochemical Society. Dr. Young has published a number of re search papers and review articles, and is joint editor of the book The Red Cell Membrane—a Methodo logical Approach (forthcoming). Dr. Young joined this University as Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine in 1981. Dr. Lutz Bieg Visiting Lecturer, German Studies Dr. Lutz Bieg read classical Chinese language and literature, Japanese and the Manchu-language, Ger­ man literature and philosophy at the University of Köln and the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and was awarded the Ph.D. degree by the University of Heidelberg in 1971. His doctoral thesis Huang T'ing-chien (1045-1105 ) ， his life and poetry was published in 1975 at Darmstadt. In 1977, Dr. Bieg passed the State Examination in Academic Librarian- ship of the Library School, Frankfurt, after two years ， training as an academic librarian in Heidelberg and Frankfurt. Dr. Bieg had been Assistant Professor of the Department of Sinology at Heidelberg University since 1970, teaching Chinese Language and Litera­ ture. He became the first DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Lecturer in the People's Republic o f China, teaching German Language at the Guang­ zhou Foreign Language Institute in 1977-1979. In September 1980, he was appointed Visiting Lecturer in German Studies at United College of this Univer­ sity, under the sponsorship of the DAAD. Dr. Liu Kwok-leung Lecturer, Department o f Physics Dr. Liu Kwok-leung graduated from the Department of Physics of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1971 ： He went to Canada for further studies in Physics at the University of Toronto, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1978. Dr. Liu was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Physics Department of the University of British Columbia, Canada from 1979 to 1981 ， and has pub­ lished a number of articles on theoretical solid state physics, in which his research interest lies. Dr. Liu joined the Physics Department of this University in 1981. Mr. Victor Tse-Kay To Computer Officer, Computer Services Centre Mr. Victor Tse-Kay To graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.S. (cum laude) degree in Engineering in 1977 and obtained an M.S. degree in Computer Science in 1980. Mr. To worked as a Computer Programmer at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1975- 77 and was later a System Programmer and Teaching Assistant. He joined this University in 1980 as Com­ puter Officer of the Computer Services Centre under the User Services Section. Mr. To's research interest is in the areas of statistics, programming languages and distributed database systems. 23