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Prof. Luk Kam-Biu received his BS in Physics from the University of Hong Kong in 1976 and PhD from Rutgers University in 1983. He was a postdoctoral fellow of the University of Washington, Seattle, from 1983 to 1986 and became an R.R. Wilson Fellow of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in 1986. He joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley as an Assistant Professor in 1989 and is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics. He was also a senior faculty scientist and is now an affiliate in the Physics Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Since September 2021, he is the IAS Paul C W Chu Professor and Chair Professor of Physics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. At present, Prof. Luk serves as the director of the Center for Fundamental Physics at HKUST.

Prof. Luk is an experimental particle physicist studying the fundamental structure of matter and fundamental forces of Nature. He has investigated the production and decay of strange baryons, charm and bottom particles, looked for the top quark and the Higgs through the dilepton channel in the early eighties, hunt for the axion before turning his focus to neutrino oscillation around the beginning of this millennium. In addition, he has interest in instrumentation that is crucial for advancing science. For the recognition of his research activities, Prof. Luk was named an Outstanding Junior Investigator from the U.S. Department of Energy. He was also an Alfred P. Sloan Research fellow. In 2003, he launched and co-leads the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment that provided the first definitive measurement of the smallest neutrino mixing angle in 2012, enabling a new generation of neutrino oscillation experiments. For this discovery, he was the co-recipient of the 2014 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics from the American Physical Society, as a leader of the Daya Bay experiment the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics together with four other experiments in recognition for their work in investigating neutrino oscillation, a laureate of the 2019 Future Science Prize in Physical Sciences and shared the 2023 European Physical Society Prize for High Energy and Particle Physics.

Prof. Luk is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Website of Prof Luk at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

May 2025