Dr. KWOK Chun Kit obtained his B.Sc. in Chemistry (2009) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, after completing an exchange program at University of California, Los Angeles in 2007-2008. He completed his PhD in Pennsylvania State University (2014) and worked as a Croucher Postdoctoral Fellow in University of Cambridge under Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian. In 2016, Dr. Kwok's joined CityU as an Assistant professor and promoted to Associate professor in July 2021. In 2019, he was one of the recipients of the CityU President Award and Croucher Innovation Award. Dr. Kwok's joined CityU State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution in the following year. In 2021, Dr. Kwok was recognized as elected member of Hong Kong Young Academy of Science (YASHK) and Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study Rising Star in Chemistry
Dr. LY Thuc Hue obtained her PhD (2015) and worked as Postdoc Research Fellow in Sungkyunkwan University, Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, Institute of Basic Science (2015-2017) under the supervision of Prof. Lee Young Hee. She joined and established the two-dimensional materials research lab in CHEM, City University of Hong Kong in August 2017. She is also a core member of Center of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF). Her group focuses on the preparation, structural characterization, and the material chemistry of a series of two-dimensional materials for future electronic and functional devices
Once again, on behalf of the Department of Chemistry, we congratulate Dr. KWOK and Dr LY on their continued success in their research endeavors.