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Professor TSE, Edmund Chun Ming

Professor TSE, Edmund Chun Ming

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, HKU

PhD (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


  • 2859 8943
  • 403 Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Designing Catalytic Platform

Current Research

 

Advanced electrochemistry to enhance the rate of redox catalysis, modulate the pathway of proton-coupled electron transfer reactions, and discover new cancer-relevant bioinorganic proteins.

Learn more here:

(Overseas): https://et-lab-hku.weebly.com/

(Mainland): https://www.etlab.hku.hk/

 

 
 
 
Engineering Energy Landscape

Fellowships

 

  • Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at Caltech
  • Croucher Foundation PhD Scholarship at UIUC
Discovering Cancer-Relevant Proteins​

Research Interest

  • Designing electrocatalytic platform for multistep redox reactions
  • Governing product selectivity by altering the reaction landscapes
  • Identifying new DNA/RNA-processing proteins that contain redox-active cofactors

Publications and News

  • Gave a talk at the 9th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference
  • Gave a talk at Kyushu University
  • Gave a talk at 2nd HK-Osaka Joint Symposium on Materials Research
  • Published a report on Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. titled “Controlling Proton and Electron Transfer Rates Enhances the Activity of an Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalyst”(Link)
  • Gave a talk at Southern University of Science and Technology
  • Secured Croucher Foundation Start-Up Fund
  • Gave a talk at California State University, Long Beach

 

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Awards and Honors

2017

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Caltech CTLO Certificate of Interest in University Teaching

2015

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Theron Standish Piper Thesis Award

2014

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Eastman Travel Grant

2013

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Walter Brown Fellowship

2012

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James R. Beck Fellowship

2011

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Therald Moellar Scholarship, Excellent Instructor Recognition

2010-2011

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Echols Scholarship

2010

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UVA College Science Scholarship

2009-2011

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Dean’s List

2009

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Lowcock Scholarship

2008

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Joseph W. N. Cheung Scholarship