Professor TSE, Edmund Chun Ming
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, HKU
PhD (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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- 403 Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
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/
Fellowships
- Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at Caltech
- Croucher Foundation PhD Scholarship at UIUC
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
Awards and Honors
2017 | | | Caltech CTLO Certificate of Interest in University Teaching |
2015 | | | Theron Standish Piper Thesis Award |
2014 | | | Eastman Travel Grant |
2013 | | | Walter Brown Fellowship |
2012 | | | James R. Beck Fellowship |
2011 | | | Therald Moellar Scholarship, Excellent Instructor Recognition |
2010-2011 | | | Echols Scholarship |
2010 | | | UVA College Science Scholarship |
2009-2011 | | | Dean’s List |
2009 | | | Lowcock Scholarship |
2008 | | | Joseph W. N. Cheung Scholarship |