Professor Wai-Yeung Wong
IAS Open Programme
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Wai-Yeung Wong (Raymond) obtained his B.Sc. (Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Hong Kong. After postdoctoral works at Texas A&M University (Advisor: Prof. F. A. Cotton) and the University of Cambridge (Advisors: Profs. The Lord Lewis and P. R. Raithby), he joined Hong Kong Baptist University from 1998 to 2016, and since 2016 he has been working at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as the Dean of Faculty of Science and Chair Professor of Chemical Technology.
He was awarded the RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award, FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award, State Natural Science Award from China, Croucher Senior Research Fellowship and RGC Senior Research Fellow Award, among others. His research focuses on organometallic and materials chemistry, especially aiming at developing multifunctional molecules and polymers for organic optoelectronics, energy science and metal-based nanomaterials. He is a world-leader in the study of organometallic optoelectronic polymers and molecules. T
he breakthroughs he has achieved in new materials are very useful in energy-generating (solar cells) and energy-saving (OLEDs) applications. He has served as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Materials Chemistry C from 2013 to 2022 and is currently serving as the Editor for Topics in Current Chemistry, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry and Energy Advances. He is the Chairman of Hong Kong Chemical Society and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2023, he was elected as the Foreign Member of the European Academy of Sciences.
During their IAS Fellowship, Professor Wong will be collaborating with Professor Wen Feng Lin from the Department of Chemical Engineering.