Associate Professor, HKU Assistant Professor, HKU Croucher Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley PhD, Cambridge MPhil, CUHK BSc (First Class) CUHK
ORCID ResearcherID
0000-0002-7216-7921 K-2026-2013
Ho Yu Au-Yeung was born and raised in Hong Kong. He conducted his undergraduate and MPhil research in organometallic chemistry with Dr. Hung Kay Lee at The Chinese University of Hong Kong before completing his PhD with Prof. Jeremy KM Sanders at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded a Croucher Scholarship for his PhD study, in which he investigated the dynamic combinatorial synthesis of donor-acceptor catenanes in water. He then joined the group of Prof. Christopher J Chang as a Croucher Postdoctoral Fellow, developing luminescent tools for studying transition metals in biological systems. In summer 2013, he joined the Department of Chemistry at The University of Hong Kong.
He is the recipient of the Croucher Innovation Award (2016), the Graeme Hanson Early Career Researcher Award (2016), Thieme Chemistry journals Award (2016), Asian Core Program Lectureship Award (Taiwan, 2018), HKU Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2020). He was a member of the inaugural Early Career Advisory Board of Chemical Review (2020-2021), and is a review editor of the Supramolecular Chemistry section of Frontiers in Chemistry (2019-now). He serves as a committee member of the Committee of Young Chemists of the Chinese Chemical Society (2020-now) and the Nexus of Rare Neurodegenerative Diseases (2019-now).
