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Prof. Raymond Wai-Yeung Wong received both his BSc degree with First Class Honours and PhD degree from The University of Hong Kong. After his postdoctoral research at Texas A&M University and the University of Cambridge, he joined the Department of Chemistry at Hong Kong Baptist University in 1998 as Assistant Professor, rising through the academic ranks to become Chair Professor in Chemistry in early 2011 at the age of 40. He served as the Head of the Department there from 2014 before he moved to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2016. He is currently Chair Professor of Chemical Technology at the Department of Applied Biology & Chemical Technology and Dean of Faculty of Science.

Prof. Wong’s research focuses on the design and synthesis of new molecular functional materials and metallopolymers with photofunctional properties and energy functions. His work ranges from innovative basic research to application studies. Currently, his team aims at developing sustainable energy sources and improving the technologies for energy conversions in order to meet the world’s future energy demand while working towards a cleaner environment. The materials developed have wide applications as sensors and eye protectors for use against harmful intense laser beams, as converters for light/electricity signals in organic solar cells and organic light-emitting diodes and as patternable precursors to magnetic metal alloy nanoparticles for magnetic data storage.

Prof. Wong has produced more than 900 research papers in leading international scientific journals including Nature Materials and Nature Communications. He was named on the list of Highly Cited Researchers 2014–2020 published by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate. He was elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 2005. At present, he is Chairman of the Hong Kong Chemical Society and plays leadership roles by taking on the editorships and serving on the editorial boards of many key international journals covering his specialty.

Prof. Wong has earned a number of international and national awards. He became the first Chinese scientist to be presented with the RSC Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award in 2010, and won the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, RGC Senior Research Fellowship, the Natural Science Award (First Class in 2010 and Second Class in 2022) of the Ministry of Education, the FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award, the JPA Lectureship Award for Asian and Oceanian Photochemist, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation, the State Natural Science Award (Second Class) and the Changjiang Scholar Chair Professorship of the Ministry of Education, among others. In 2023, he was elected as a Foreign Fellow of The European Academy of Sciences. He was also elected as a Member of The Hong Kong Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Dec 2025