Hak-Fun Chow's Research Group
Hak-Fun Chow
Biography
Education
Hak-Fun Chow was born in 1957. He obtained his BSc and MPhil degrees from the Department of Chemistry at the Chinese University in Hong Kong. In 1981, he was awarded the Croucher Foundation Scholarship and began his PhD study in Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Ian Fleming at Cambridge between 1981-1984. The title of his PhD thesis is "Regio- and Stereo-Control in Organic Synthesis".
Working Experience
After his PhD study, he spent 1 year of postdoctoral study with Prof. Dieter Seebach at ETH-Zurich and another year with Prof. George W. J. Fleet at Oxford. In both occasions the research work was related to the synthesis of natural products. In the years between 1987-1992, he worked as a research scientist in an agrochemical company named Dow-Elanco near a small town called Wantage near Oxford, UK.
Positions
In 1992, he moved back to CUHK to become a Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry. He was then promoted to the position of Senior Lecturer in 1997, and to a Professor in 2005. Currently he serves as the Director of the Center of Novel Functional Molecules.
Awards and Professional Services
He received the Faculty Exemplary Teacher Award in 2001 and the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a Chartered Scientist of the Science Council, UK, and the China Regional Editor of Synlett.
