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Research Faculty

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Head of the Department of Ocean Science

Chair Professor

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Jianping GAN
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Jianping GAN

PhD in Physical Oceanography
McGill University

Email: magan@ust.hk

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Research Interests:

Ocean circulation and marine ecosystem dynamics and numerical ocean modeling in the China Seas; oceanic processes in estuaries/bays in the coastal waters, the South China Sea and Western Pacific basins; inter-disciplinary research in coupled physical-biogeochemical dynamics through numerical modeling, field measurement and process study in the China Seas.

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Associate Head of the Department of Ocean Science

Associate Professor

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Stanley Chun Kwan LAU
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Stanley Chun Kwan LAU

PhD in Biology
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Email: scklau@ust.hk

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Research Interests:

Marine microbial ecology; genome composition, population genetics and ecophysiology of cryptic Escherichia in the marine environment; horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes; microbial source tracking of fecal pollution in coastal marine environment

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David von Hansemann Professor of Science

Chair Professor

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Peiyuan QIAN
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Peiyuan QIAN

PhD in Marine Biology
Univeristy of Alberta
Principal Investigator of Center for Marine Bioactive Substances

Email: boqianpy@ust.hk

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Research Interests:

Marine Molecular Ecology focusing on omics and symbiosis of deep-sea marine invertebrates as well as marine biofilms; and Marine Chemical Ecology focusing on marine natural products for new antibiotics and non-toxic antifouling coatings.

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Chair Professor

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Hongbin LIU
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Hongbin LIU

PhD in Oceanography
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Email: liuhb@ust.hk

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Research Interests:

Current research focuses on factors that control microbial (with the emphasis on cyanobacteria) biomass, diversity, production and metabolism in different marine ecosystems; microbial food web dynamics to biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nutrients in the ocean, and their relation to the global warming; environmental issues in Hong Kong coastal waters, such as harmful algal bloom and coastal hypoxia.

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Professor

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Prof. SU Hui
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Hui SU

PhD in Atmospheric Sciences
University of Washington

Email: cehsu@ust.hk

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Research Interests:

Climate Variability and Climate Change;
Aerosols and Clouds;
Tropical Convection and Tropical Cyclones;
Weather and Climate Modelling;
Remote Sensing

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Associate Professors

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Qinglu ZENG
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Qinglu ZENG

PhD in Biological Sciences
The State University of New York at Albany

Email: zeng@ust.hk

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Research Interests:

The role of bacteria and their viruses (bacteriophages) in marine ecological processes and the molecular mechanism of their adaptation to the environment; to understand marine ecosystem functioning from the molecular level.

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Yeung Sai Kit
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Sai Kit YEUNG

PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Email: saikit@ust.hk

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Research Interests:

3D Vision and Visual Understanding; Computational Design and Generative Models; 3D Modeling and Fabrication;
Marine AI and Systems Design: Visual Understanding of Marine Environment such as Coral Reef, Marine Object Detection, Segmentation, and Tracking,
Underwater Navigation and 3D Mapping, Event Detection in Marine Videos, Multi-modal LLM for Marine Understanding, Camera Systems for Underwater Surveying, Sustainable Aquaculture

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Assistant Professors

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Yan WANG
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Yan WANG

PhD in Applied Marine Physics
University of Miami

Email: yanwang@ust.hk

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Research Interests

Baroclinic turbulence over continental slopes, eddy-mean flow interactions and eddy parameterizations in numerical ocean models, detection and tracking of Lagrangian Coherent Structures via satellite altimetry records and model outputs.

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Julian MAK
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Julian MAK

PhD in Applied Mathematics
The University of Leeds

Email: jclmak@ust.hk

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Research Interests

Geophysical fluid dynamics, wave/eddy-mean flow interactions, global/regional/idealised numerical modelling of the ocean, inverse and data assimilation methods, high performance computing, applied mathematics

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Charmaine Cheuk Man YUNG
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Charmaine Cheuk Man YUNG

PhD in Marine Science and Conservation
Duke University

Email: ccmyung@ust.hk

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Research Interests

Microbial oceanography; understanding how environmental factors and anthropogenic activities influence microbial structure and functioning, characterizing microbial interactions at different trophic levels, studying algal viral ecology and genomics

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Alex S.J. WYATT
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Alex S.J. WYATT

PhD in Marine Ecology and Oceanography
The University of Western Australia

Email: wyatt@ust.hk

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Research Interests

Linking oceanographic processes and the ecological structure and function of globally threatened marine ecosystems and species. Coastal biogeochemistry, coral reef ecology, mesophotic coral ecosystems, trophic ecology, isotope ecology, Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER), ecological engineering, and ecosystem restoration.

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Jiying LI
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Jiying LI

PhD in Limnology and Oceanography
University of Minnesota

Email: jiyingli@ust.hk

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Research Interests

Biogeochemistry of lakes and oceans, focusing on the cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur and redox metals; geochemistry and early diagenesis of sediments, stable isotope geochemistry, nutrient dynamics and phytoplankton ecology

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Ding HE
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Ding HE

PhD in Marine Organic Geochemistry
Florida International University

Email: dinghe@ust.hk

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Research Interests

Biogeochemistry and carbon cycling along the river-estuary-coastal continuum during the Anthropocene; Stable isotope geochemistry; Cycling of organic matter investigated by the molecular biomarker fingerprint and the state-of-the-art ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry; Big-data techniques (e.g., machine learning) and their application in marine organic geochemistry.

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 Longjun WU
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Longjun WU

PhD in Evolution, Ecology, Genetics, and Genomics
University of Rochester

Email: longjunwu@ust.hk

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Research Interests

Evolution of marine animal biodiversity; Stress-induced adaptation; Ecological and evolutionary genomics; Developmental evolutionary biology; Evolution of cell types; Deep-sea adaptation.

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Qiong ZHANG
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Qiong ZHANG

PhD in Earth Sciences
University of Oxford

Email: qiongz@ust.hk

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Research Interests

Interactions of the biosphere and the geosphere; feedbacks of marine ecosystem to the change of environment; trace metal cycling and stable isotope biogeochemistry; microbial proteomics and transcriptomics.

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Masayuki USHIO
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Masayuki USHIO

PhD in Biological Sciences
Kyoto University

Email: ushio@ust.hk

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Research Interests

​​​​​​​Monitoring community dynamics using environmental DNA; Forecasting community dynamics using statistical tools; Environmental DNA analysis; Fish community; Microbial community; Statistical modeling; Machine learning; Nutrient cycling

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Teaching Staff

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Lecturers

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Cindy Ka Sin LAM

Assistant Professor of Science Education

PhD in Marine Environmental Science
University of Oldenburg, Germany

Email: envscindy@ust.hk

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Teaching and Research Interests

Marine larval biology and ecology, allelopathy of marine macroalgae, marine biofilms, conservation of marine habitats and environmental field studies in Hong Kong. Actively involved in teaching projects related to active learning pedagogy and gamification, and other STEM projects in microplastics detection and removal process, ocean farming.

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Content (Lecturers Cynthia Sin Ting Yau)
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Cynthia Sin Ting Yau

Assistant Professor of Science Education

PhD in Zoology
University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Email: cynthiastyau@ust.hk

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Teaching and Research Interests

Biodiversity, Marine ecology, Marine environment, Marine plankton ecology and Marine conservation

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Veronica Shui-yee LEUNG
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Shui-yee LEUNG

PhD (Microbiology)
University of Hong Kong

Email: leung.sy@ust.hk

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Teaching and Research Interests

Food microbiology and food safety, foodborne and waterborne pathogens.