Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 1997

Prof. Q in joined the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of The Chinese University as scientific officer in November 1994. He was appointed assistant professor in January 1997. Prof. Qin's current research focuses on the acceleration of bone-tendon junction healing and the prevention of osteoporosis. Prof. Alexandros Molasiotis Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing Prof. Molasiotis completed his undergraduate training in nursing at the University of Iraklion in Greece. After working for two years as a clinical nurse in a university hospital in Athens, he continued his studies in the UK, obtaining his MS in nursing from the University of Hull and his Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham. In the time between his MS and Ph.D. degrees, Prof. Molasiotis underwent training in the care of bone marrow transplant patients at the Royal Marsden Hospital. This prepared him for his subsequent job as a clinical nurse specialist in the bone marrow transplant unit of the University Hospital, Birmingham. For the past two years, Prof. Molasiotis was teaching at the University of Liverpool, UK, and the University of Malta, USA. He has published over 20 research reports in top medical and nursing journals, including Cancer Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Social Science and Medicine, Bone Marrow Transplantation, and the International Journal of Nursing Studies. Prof. Molasiotis is currently writing for a book on nursing in haematological oncology edited by the Royal College of Nursing in the UK. He plans to continue his research on the psychosocial aspects of cancer in Hong Kong. Prof. Xu Yangsheng Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering Prof. Xu received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in the late 80s, whereupon he joined Carnegie Mellon University in 1989 and established the Space Robotics Laboratory, known as the first laboratory dedicated to space robotics research. In the following eight years at Carnegie Mellon, Prof. Xu made significant contributions to space robotics research. He developed a space telerobotics testbed which included a zero-gravity system, and several space robots, including the well-known Self-mobile Space Manipulator (SM). Prof. Xu has also developed new technology and theories in the field of human-machine interface, many of Profiles 37