BSoSci (CUHK); MA (UCLA); PhD (UC Santa Barbara); Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences; Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences; Fellow of the U.K. Academy of Social Sciences;
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Guggenheim Fellow (US and Canada); Fellow of the American Association of Geographers (AAG); Fellow of the Geographical Society of China; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (UK)
BSoSci (CUHK); MA (UCLA); PhD (UC Santa Barbara); Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences; Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences; Fellow of the U.K. Academy of Social Sciences;
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Guggenheim Fellow (US and Canada); Fellow of the American Association of Geographers (AAG); Fellow of the Geographical Society of China; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (UK)
Head, Chung Chi College, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management, and Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Professor Mei-Po KWAN is a geographer and is currently Head of Chung Chi College, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management, and Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Prof. Kwan has made paradigm-shifting contributions to research on geographic information science, environmental health, human mobility, and transport/health issues in cities. She discovered the uncertain geographic context problem (UGCoP) and the neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP), which question the existing knowledge in neighborhood effect research based on residence-based approaches and led to a shift to the mobility-based paradigm in environmental exposure assessment. Prof. Kwan is a pioneer and a leading researcher in deploying real-time GPS tracking and mobile sensing to collect high-resolution, individual-level data to mitigate exposure measurement errors due to the UGCoP and the NEAP. Her work has inspired much new mobility-based research in environmental health, public health, sociology, health geography, and urban studies on a wide range of topics, including the health impacts of individual exposure to green space, air pollution, noise, heat, traffic congestion, social environments, and ethnic/racial segregation.
Prof. Kwan has received numerous prestigious honours and awards. She ranked first in China in the field of geography in the 2023 Global Scholar Database’s Lifetime Academic Impact List. She ranked the world’s no. 5 in the field of geography in 2024 and 2025 according to the list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University. She received two Lifetime Achievement Awards (one from the International Geographical Union in 2023 and the other from the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences in 2024). She has received many other prestigious honors and awards, including the James R. Anderson Medal of Honor in Applied Geography, the Distinguished Scholarship Honors, the Wilbanks Prize for Transformational Research in Geography, and the Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography from the American Association of Geographers.
Prof. Kwan has published over 580 journal articles, books, and book chapters. She has delivered over 420 keynote addresses, invited lectures, and other invited presentations in more than 20 countries.
More about Prof. Mei-Po KWAN: http://meipokwan.org
Dec 2025
