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Professor Sun Hongzhe

Department of Chemistry

As a recipient of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Young Scholar Award (2005), a Croucher Senior Research Fellowship (2010–2011), and the HKU Outstanding Researcher Award (2009–2010), Professor Sun knows what it takes to succeed in research. He is passing his insights on to research students through a simple formula.

“Provide them with encouragement, stimulation and training,” he said. Students are encouraged to do research at the frontier and aim for excellence, stimulated to keep going and find new ways of looking at their work, and provided with comprehensive training to help them succeed.

PhD student Angel Lai said: “He has a free style of supervising. He gave me guidelines and pointed me to the area I should explore, then he let me go for it. I found unexpected results that made my story more interesting. His style is very good and even though it’s a free style, his expectations are very high.”

Professor Sun added: “The numerous awards and prizes my students have received over the years and their postgraduate successes have given me much satisfaction.”