New Office at Academic Exchange Building

Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study was relocated to a new office at Academic Exchange Building, CityU in August. The new office provides ample space to stimulate active academic exchange and interaction among HKIAS Senior Fellows, visiting scholars and post-doctoral students. The office features a new lecture theatre which is equipped with cutting-edge facilities that cater for a wide range of academic activities. HKIAS will organize more scientific events and further strengthen multidisciplinary research.

Neuroscience professors open the minds of Hong Kong’s science community

Science (Vol 369, Issue 6499, 3 July 2020) · 3 Jul 2020

New frontiers in neuroscience

nature (Volume 583 Issue 7814) · 2 Jul 2020

HKIAS Senior Fellow Professor Ke Lu receives the 2020 Future Science Prize in Physical Sciences

Elastoplastic Modeling" by HKIAS Senior Fellow Professor Jean Salençon

HKIAS Senior Fellow Professor Evelyn Hu received the 2021 IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal

Professor Evelyn Hu, HKIAS Senior Fellow, was honoured with the 2021 IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal.

What Hong Kong can do to avoid a total lockdown and a fourth wave of Covid-19 cases

Hong Kong registered a record-breaking of Covid-19 cases in July, pushing its total infections over 3,000 since its first coronavirus outbreak

HKIAS Senior Fellow Professor Qi-Kun Xue appointed as the President of Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Professor Qi-Kun Xue, HKIAS Senior Fellow, has been appointed as the President of the Southern University of Science and Technology, China, effective from November 2020.

Exciting collaboration on High Entropy Alloys by HKIAS Senior Fellows Professor Chain-Tsuan Liu and Professor Jian Lu, and HKIAS Executive Director Professor Jacob C. Huang

Innovative findings on high entropy alloys for both functional and structural applications by the HKIAS Materials Science Cluster and researcher

HKIAS Senior Fellow Professor Herbert Gleiter awarded the Honorary Doctoral Degree and appointed as a Senior Fellow from the University of Lanzhou

Professor Herbert Gleiter, HKIAS Senior Fellow, was conferred the Honorary Doctoral Degree and appointed as a Senior Fellow from the University of Lanzhou in China. The award ceremony will be held during The Gleiter Symposium on Frontier of Nanoscience on 23 November 2020.