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Biography

Wai-Yeung Wong (Raymond) received his BSc and PhD from the University of Hong Kong in 1992 and 1995, respectively. After his postdoctoral work at Texas A&M University in 1996 with Professor F. Albert Cotton, he worked for Professors Lord Jack Lewis (FRS) and Paul R. Raithby at the University of Cambridge in 1997.

He worked at Hong Kong Baptist University from 1998 to 2016 and is currently a Chair Professor in Chemical Technology at the Department of Applied Biology & Chemical Technology of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

His research mainly focuses on synthetic inorganic/organometallic chemistry and materials chemistry, with special emphasis on developing metal-based molecular materials with energy functions and photofunctional/magnetic properties. Wai-Yeung is internationally renowned for his research in metallopolymers and metallo-organic molecules for various optoelectronic applications.

He was the recipient of the 浪花直播 of the Transition Metals Award by 浪花直播 in 2010, and won the FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award in 2011, the Distinguished Lectureship Award from The Chemical Society of Japan in 2012, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation in 2012, State Natural Science Award in China in 2013 and Japanese Photochemistry Association Lectureship Award for Asian and Oceanian Photochemist in 2014. He is currently the Chairman of Hong Kong Chemical Society and is a Fellow of the 浪花直播.

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• Editorial board, Energy Advances