Project Team
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Principal Investigators
Prof. Gabriel Ngar-cheung LAU
劉雅章教授
Emeritus Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management
Senior Advisor, former Director cum Programme Leader (Climate and Environmental Changes), Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability

Professor, School of Life Sciences
Director, Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability
Director, Simon F S Li Marine Science Laboratory, School of Life Sciences
Director, Environmental Science Programme, School of Life Sciences

Associate Professor, Earth System Science Programme, Faculty of Science
Associate Director, Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability
Associate Director, Office of University General Education

Prof. Steve Hung-lam YIM
嚴鴻霖教授
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management
Associate Professor, Asian School of Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Associate Professor, Earth System Science Programme, Faculty of Science

Professor, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care

Research Staff
With the generous financial support from the CUHK Vice-Chancellor's Discretionary Fund (Project No.: 4930744), the Project Team has engaged 24 highly accomplished researchers with diversified backgrounds in performing multi-disciplinary research tasks.
Education: BSc, MSc (University of California, Davis); PhD (HKUST)
Research Interest: Air pollution, climate change, effects of urbanization
Education: BEng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China); MEng, DS (Sun Yat-sen University)
Research Interest: Urban air quality and exposure assessment, personal exposure monitoring and modeling, toxicology of indoor- and outdoor-origin particles
Education: BS, DS (Sun Yat-sen University)
Research Interest: Model physical processes, extreme events modeling, numerical weather and air-quality prediction, meteorological observation system
Education: BS, BFin, MS (Wuhan University); PhD (CUHK)
Research Interest: Remote sensing of environment, PM2.5 pollution, aerosol, spatiotemporal modeling
Education: BS (Qingdao Technological University), MSc (Cleveland State University), PhD (Texas A&M University)
Research Interest: Air pollution, aerosol, climate change
Education: BSc (National Kaohsiung Marine University); MSc, PhD (University of East Anglia)
Research Interest: Spatio-temporal air quality, air pollution modeling
Education: BSc (HKU), MSc (University of Reading), MSc (Asian Institute of Technology)
Research Interest: Impact of climate change on crop production and food security
Education: BSc, MSc (Imperial College London); PhD (University of Exeter)
Research Interest: Climate change, ozone air pollution, ecosystem conservation, biodiversity monitoring, sustainable agriculture, transient tracers in atmosphere and ocean
Education: BEng (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology), PhD (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Research Interest: Remote sensing of environment, PM2.5 pollution, aerosol, spatiotemporal modeling
Education: MPhys, DPhil (University of Oxford)
Research Interest: Climate dynamics, seasonal forecasts, southeast asian rainfall and droughts
Education: BS, DS (Sun Yat-sen University)
Research Interest: Hydroclimater variability of East Asian monsoon, regional response to global warming
Education: BS, DS (Sun Yat-sen University)
Research Interest: Hierarchical GCM, modeling framework in regional air-sea coupling, machine learning application in atmospheric sciences
Education: BS (Nanjing University); MPhil, PhD (HKUST)
Research Interest: Indoor and outdoor air pollution, exposure assessment, source apportionment
Education: BS (Hubei University); MSc, PhD (CUHK)
Research Interest: Ecological remote sensing, ecosystem services
Education: BEng (Wuhan University), MS (Chinese Academy of Sciences), PhD (CUHK)
Research Interest: Climate change, Asian monsoon, extreme climate events, climate dynamics
Education: BSc (Peking University), PhD (CUHK)
Research Interest: Ozone damage on vegetation, atmosphere-biosphere interactions and modelling, food security
Education: BS, DS (Lanzhou University)
Research Interest: Regional and urban air quality, atmospheric environment simulation, weather-air quality interactions, meteorology, environmental and public health
Education: BS (Nanjing University); MB, MM (Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine); PhD (CUHK)
Research Interest: Environmental health, biostatistics and epidemiology, public health
Education: BSc, MPhil (CUHK)
Research Interest: Impact of climate change on crop production and food security, atmosphere-biosphere interactions and modelling
Education: BSc (China Agricultural University), MSc (Chinese Academy of Sciences), PhD (Macquarie University)
Research Interest: Atmosphere-land interaction and Earth system modeling, hydroclimatology and climate change, landscape pattern and eco-hydrological processes
Education: BS, MS (Chengdu University of Information Technology); PhD (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Research Interest: Land surface processes, climate change, air Pollution, WRF modeling
Education: BSc, MSc, PhD (Nanjing University)
Research Interest: Land-atmosphere interaction, dynamical downscaling, developing performance metrics of climate models, monsoon dynamics
Education: BEng (Anhui Normal University); MS, PhD (University of Science and Technology of China)
Research Interest: Climate change and air pollution, remote sensing, aerosol-cloud-precipitation interaction, Impacts of typhoon/monsoon on upper ocean
Education: BS, DS (Sun Yat-sen University)
Research Interest: Sub-seasonal to seasonal prediction and predictability, climate impact of the maritime continent, tropical meteorology