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Ken Cham-Fai LEUNG

Biography

Dr. Leung is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Assistant to Director at the Institute of Creativity, and a member in the State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, The Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China. He concurrently holds the Honorary Assistant Professorship at the Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong. His research interests are in the field of supramolecular chemistry, catalysis, nanoscience, and nanomedicine. He gained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1999 and 2003, respectively. He conducted a three-year postdoctoral research work in the laboratory of Professor Sir J. Fraser Stoddart for the years 2003-2006 at The California NanoSystems Institute and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of California at Los Angeles, USA. He started his independent research career as a research assistant professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong before moving to The Hong Kong Baptist University. He has published over 70 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals with over 3,300 times of citation and an h-index of 32. He is the recipient of two Asian Core Program Lectureship Awards from Japan (2010) and South Korea (2012), Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Technology Advancement, First Class) from the Ministry of Education of China (2011), Materials Research Contribution Award from the Asia Pacific Society for Materials Research (2013, 2014 and 2015), Asian Rising Stars Award from the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies (2013), and HKBU Faculty Performance Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching (2016).

Research Interest

(1) Inorganic-organic hybrid nanobiomaterials, (2) Supramolecular chemistry (3) Molecular switches and shuttles (4) Molecular sensors and actuators List of Publications