18 Jan 2022

Faculty of Science scoops four awards in 2021/22 Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) Group Research Projects

HKU has been funded with seven projects as coordinating institution, in which four led by the Faculty have secured a funding of over HK$24.8 Million.

In the latest announcement of the Research Grants Council (RGC) in the 2021/22 funding exercise, the Faculty of Science has secured exceptional results under the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF).

Established by the University Grants Committee (UGC), the award of CRF Group Research Projects is to encourage and support multi-investigators in diverse disciplines to engage in more creative and high-quality cross-disciplinary projects.

Among the 25 CRF Group Research Projects funded by the RGC, HKU has been funded with seven projects as coordinating institution, in which four led by the Faculty have secured a funding of over HK$24.8 Million. Among the four awarded projects, two are from Department of Chemistry, one from Earth Sciences and the other one from Physics.

Details of the awarded projects are appended below:

Department	Project Title	Project Coordinator	RGC Fund Approved	Project Period
Chemistry	Functional supramolecular and metallosupramolecular materials and biomaterials — From synthetic challenges to controlled supramolecular assembly, functions and application studies 超分子和金屬超分子功能材料及生物材料 - 從合成挑戰到超分子可控組裝、功能及應用研究	Professor Vivian Wing Wah YAM	HK$7,480,000	3 years
Chemistry	Active fluid for enhanced thermal transport and energy harvesting 活性流體在傳熱和能源回收中的應用	Dr Jinyao TANG	HK$4,559,740	3 years
Earth Sciences	Characterisation of ancient lake basins on Mars using advanced topographic modelling and innovative spectroscopic techniques 基於先進地形建模與創新光譜技術的火星老湖泊盆地特徵研究	Dr Joseph MICHALSKI	HK$4,621,350	3 years
Physics	Transport and dynamics of correlated quantum matter 關聯量子物態中的輸運和動力學	Professor Shunqing SHEN	HK$8,160,000	3 years

HKU Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Max Shen congratulated all successful applicants and their research teams. He said: “The grants are clear demonstration of the research competitiveness of the University’s faculties and investigators. Their success in obtaining funding further recognised the University’s excellent performance in teaching, learning, and research, and our researchers’ outstanding achievements and strengths. I hope HKU members will continue to address important problems in their fields with innovative ideas, so as to elevate the University’s research in a wide range of areas to world leading levels.”

For more details about the funding results, please click here .

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