Prof. CHOW, Cheuk Fai Stephen 周卓輝
Prof. Stephen Cheuk-Fai Chow received his B.Sc. (Applied Chemistry, 1st class honour) and Ph.D. from the City University of Hong Kong in 2000 and 2005 respectively.
After graduation, he obtained a Croucher Foundation Fellowship and did his post-doctoral fellowship with Nobel laureate Jean Marie Lehn at the University of Strasbourg, France (2005-2007). His studies continued with Prof. Chi-Ming Che (The Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Prof. Michael Hon-Wah Lam at The University of Hong Kong (2007-2009) and The City University of Hong Kong (2009-2010) respectively.
Prof. Chow joined the Department of Science and Environmental Studies of The Education University of Hong Kong as Assistant Professor in 2010, became Associate Professor and Professor in 2013 and 2021, respectively. Starting from 2014, he has taken up the directorship of knowledge transfer unit in the University.
Prof. Chow received The President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research from The Education University of Hong Kong, (i) Early Career Research Excellence Award (2013); and (ii) Research Excellence Award (2016). He was a Topic Editor (Supramolecular chemistry) and he is now an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Chemistry (IF 5.545). He was listed as the world's top 2% scientist (Stanford University, 2020, under Organic Chemistry Field).
