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Ten outstanding CUHK scholars receive accolades from RGC
Ten outstanding scholars from CUHK received the Senior Research Fellow Scheme and Research Fellow Scheme awards, and the Early Career Award and Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship from the Research Grants Council (RGC) in recognition of their excellent achievements in their research areas.
Launched in 2020–21, RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme and Research Fellow Scheme support each awardee with a fellowship grant for over a period of 60 months to cover salary costs for relief teachers and support for research projects, as a means to facilitate their dedication to research.
The RGC Early Career Scheme aims to assist junior academics, while the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme aims at granting extended time-off and supporting funds to outstanding investigators under the disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences Panel to enable them to focus on research work and writing.
Details of the CUHK awardees are as follows:
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RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme |
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Awardees |
Projects |
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Prof. Huang Yu, |
Systemic Benefits of Physical Activity: Crosstalk between Organs on Signal Transduction from Mechano-stimulation to Metabolism |
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Prof. Shen Jianfa, |
Modelling and Simulating Regional Migration Systems |
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Prof. Xie Zuowei, |
Base Metal Catalyzed Selective B-H Functionalization of Carboranes: Controlled Synthesis of Functionalized Carboranes and their Applications in Catalysis |
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RGC Research Fellow Scheme |
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Awardee |
Projects |
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Prof. Wu Yilin, |
Self-organization of Bacterial Active Matter in Viscoelastic Fluids and Gels |
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Early Career Award |
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Awardees |
Projects |
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Prof. Zhao Changhong, |
Optimizing Multiphase Power Flow via Exact Convex Relaxation and Distributed Feedback Design |
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Prof. Jacque Ip Pak-kan, |
Investigating the Roles of Input-specific Cooperative Synaptic Plasticity in Visual Cortical Plasticity: Implications for Amblyopia |
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Prof. Chan Kin-wai, |
Multiple Incompatibility Problems in Multiple Imputation Procedures |
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Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship |
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Awardees |
Projects |
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Prof. Bryan Mercurio, |
Reshaping Global Trade: The Impact and Effects of the US-China Trade War |
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Prof. Poo Mu-chou, |
The Imagined Paradise: The Netherworld in Ancient Egypt and China |
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Prof. Annett Schirmer, |
A New Gating Theory on the Convergence of ‘Discriminative’ and ‘Affective’ Touch |