Professor Mok Ngai-ming Elected
Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Renowned mathematician Professor Mok Ngai-ming is the only local scholar elected to be a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Mathematics and Physics) this year.
Professor Mok Ngai-ming, Edmund and
Peggy Tse Professor in Mathematics, Chair of Mathematics, was elected a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Mathematics and Physics) in December, 2015.
A delighted Professor Mok said: “I am very honoured and very happy to have been elected by the Academy, and to have my research in Mathematics and the many years I’ve dedicated to the development of the discipline in Hong Kong and in Mainland China recognised this way.”
President Peter Mathieson congratulated Professor Mok on his achievements: “This distinguished award is a recognition of the importance of Professor Mok’s contributions to mathematical research and helps to strengthen even more HKU’s research standing nationally and globally. The University is proud of his accomplishments and grateful to him for his commitment to HKU over the past two decades. We offer him our warmest congratulations on this outstanding achievement.”
Professor Mok Ngai-ming joined HKU’s Department of Mathematics in 1994 and is now the Director of HKU Institute of Mathematical Research. His research interests encompass several complex variables, differential geometry and algebraic geometry. He is an acclaimed mathematician and has received many prestigious local and international awards, including the Sloan Fellowship Award, the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Croucher Award 1998, the Second-class Award of State Natural Science Award 2007, and the Bergman Prize of the American Mathematical Society 2009.
Founded in 1955, Academic Divisions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has served as an advanced national think-tank to the Chinese Government on major science and technology issues. It consists of six divisions, respectively in mathematics and physics, chemistry, life and medical sciences, earth sciences, information technical sciences and technological sciences. There were 61 Members and 12 Foreign Members elected in the meeting this year.