Professor Vivian Yam Elected
Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea
Professor Vivian Yam in the Department of Chemistry has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea.
Professor Vivian Yam Wing-wah, Philip Wong Wilson Wong Professor in Chemistry and Energy and Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry, was elected to be a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) in September, 2015.
Professor Yam was delighted and said: “It is my great honour to become the Foreign Member of this distinguished Academy and I am looking forward to meeting other well-known chemists and scientists within Europe and all over the world.”
President Peter Mathieson congratulated Professor Yam on her election as a Foreign Member: “I and all of Vivian’s colleagues here at HKU are of course delighted to see her receive yet another international accolade in recognition of her distinguished achievements in the field. That the only Foreign Member in Chemical Sciences of the Academy should be from HKU is further evidence of the University’s impact and research standing in the world.”
Professor Yam’s research interests include inorganic and organometallic chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, and metal-based molecular functional materials for sensing, organic optoelectronics and energy research. As a prominent scientist with international acclaim, she was elected to Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001 at the age of 38 as the youngest member of the Academy.
Founded in 1988, the Academia Europaea is an international, non-governmental association of individual scientists and scholars from all disciplines, who are experts and leaders of international distinction in their own subject areas as recognised by their peers, irrespective of nationality,
gender, location or discipline. Professor Yam was the only Foreign Member elected in 2015 in the Chemical Sciences section and she will be inducted into the Academy in June, 2016 in Cardiff,
United Kingdom.