Principal Investigator

Dr. Xinglong Zhang

Vice-Chancellor Assistant Professor

xinglong.zhang@cuhk.edu.hk

Departmental Profile

About me


Education

2016–2019

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Oxford, UK

2015–2016

Master of Science (Dist)

University of Oxford, UK

2011–2014

Bachelor of Arts

University of Cambridge, UK

Position

2024–now

Assistant Professor
(On No-Pay Leave)

CUHK, Hong Kong

2020-now

Research Scientist
(No-Pay Leave Oct '24)

IHPC, A*STAR, SG

2019–2020

Postdoctoral Scholar

Caltech, USA

2014–2015

Laboratory Officer

IBN, A*STAR, SG

2009–2010

National Service Fulltime

Singapore Armed Forces

Awards

2024

ASEAN-Republic of Korea Next ASEAN Innovator Awardee

2023

ASEAN-Republic of Korea Next ASEAN Innovator Finalist

2018

The Leathersellers’ Company Scholarship, University of Oxford

2017-2019

Stipendiary Lectureship in Physical Chemistry (undergraduate teaching), University of Oxford

2017

Graduate Travel/Research Grant, New College, University of Oxford

2015

National Science Scholarship (PhD), A*STAR, Singapore

2013, 2014

E. M. Burnett Prize, Hughes Hall College, University of Cambridge

2013

BP Prize for the most outstanding performance in Part IB Chemistry A (ranked 1/118 in the whole univeristy), University of Cambridge

2012

BP Prize for the most outstanding performance in Part IA Chemistry (ranked 1/466 in the whole univeristy), University of Cambridge

2009

National Science Scholarship (BS), A*STAR, Singapore

Competitve Funding

2022

MTC Young Individual Research Grants (YIRG), as PI, S$309,400

2021

A*STAR Career Development Fund, as PI, S$234,000



Team



X YZ

Year 1 PhD Student

BSc, University of XYZ

xyz@cuhk.edu.hk






Collaborators

Professor Robin Yonggui Chi, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

Professor Debabrata Maiti, FRSC, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), India 

Associate Professor Ming Joo Koh, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 

Assistant Professor Ru-Yi Zhu, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 

Dr Benjamin W. J. Chen, IHPC, A*STAR, Singapore 

Dr Jinquan Wang, ISCE2, A*STAR, Singapore 

Professor Xingxing Wu, Guizhou University, China 

Professor Zhichao Jin, Guizhou University, China 

Professor Xing Yang, Hunan Normal University, China 

Associate Professor Haibo Ge, Texas Tech University, USA 



Past Industrial Collaborators

The Dow Chemical Company 

Entegris, Inc 

Contact

Run Run Shaw Science Building,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

xinglong.zhang@cuhk.edu.hk