ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6897-4010
Scopus Author ID: 55277269000
ResearcherID: L-8947-2014

Metrics for Academic and Research Impact

(1) Postdoc opportunities: contact me directly by sending CV to [email protected]

(2) Ph.D studies (4-year direct Ph.D for candidates with BSc, or 3-year Ph.D for candidates with MPhil or MSc):

(a) for government funded program, please submit your application to: https://banweb.cityu.edu.hk/pls/PROD/hwskalog_cityu.P_DispLoginNon 

For more information, please visit: http://www.sgs.cityu.edu.hk/prospective/rpg            

(b) for Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme, please follow the Application Process and Time Lines:

To register at RGC: http://cerg1.ugc.edu.hk/hkpfs/index.html

To submit full application to CityU: see (a) 

(English Proficiency Requirements: http://www.cityu.edu.hk/sgs/download/rpg/prospective/handbook.pdf )

Energetics, kinetics and dynamics involved in formation/growth/reaction of low-dimensional functional materials and the materials’ novel properties studied using computational and experimental approaches. The theoretical and computational approaches adopted include optimization algorithms, molecular dynamics simulations and Monte Carlo methods, based on multi-level theories ranging from molecular mechanics, semiempirical theories, to first-principles theories. Recent research focus is on nanoscience, including interactions of nanomaterials with chemical, biological, and medical systems, aiming at promoting the applications of nanostructured materials in energy-related and chemical, biological, medical, and environmental areas. Developments of related theories and methodologies.

Research tools

(1) Hardware: 

(i) 3 PC clusters for parallel computations

a) 26 CPUs (2.8GHz with HT Technology); b) 8 CPUs (2.45GHz); c) 12 CPUs (2.2GHz; AMD Opteron 64-bit)

(ii) User of a supercomputer SGI Alitx,with 64 x Intel Itanium2 1.5GHz, 128GB Main Memory, and OS - 64bit SuSE Enterprise Server Linux

(iii) User of a cluster containing 2,048 cores within 256 Dell PowerEdge M600 blade compute nodes, three PowerEdge 2950 I/O nodes and two PowerEdge 1950 login/management nodes. All compute nodes are connected via the InfiniBand(IB) interconnect: http://www.sci.hkbu.edu.hk/hpccc/sciblade/

(2) Theories: 

(i) Geometric and electronic structures: Hartree-Fock, DFT, MP2

(ii) Molecular dynamics:  FFMD, TBMD, DFTBMD, DFMD

(iii) Chemical reaction – kinetic theories: RRKM, TST, Polyrate

(iv) Optical properties - excited states: Time-dependent Hartree-Fock/DFT

(v) Electrical properties - transport: Orthodox theory, non-equilibrium Green function

• President (2013-2017) of Physical Society of Hong Kong (PSHK)
• Council Member (2017-2019) of Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS)