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We identify solutions to critical global challenges by extending the frontiers of knowledge both within and beyond existing research paradigms. Our highly qualified academics are drawn from all over the world, bringing a wealth of research and professional experience to our programmes. Our world-class labs and state-of-the-art teaching facilities, as well as our state key laboratories, a national engineering centre and a suite of institutional-level research centres, enable our researchers to maintain a positive trajectory. We also pioneer new forms of expression by bringing science and the arts together.

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Scholars Named as Highly Cited Researchers for 2025 by Clarivate
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Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents (2024)

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Citations per Faculty in QS World University Rankings 2026

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CityUHK researchers advance spatial omics to routine clinical use

CityUHK team invents novel eDNA membrane to advance understanding of inshore fish diversity

Why Antarctica matters in Hong Kong — even from 12,000 kilometres away

How does the brain overcome the limits of multitasking? Neuroscientists at CityUHK and CUHK reveals a dynamic neural strategy and hints for artificial intelligence training

CityUHK researchers develop optical corner detection technology, paving the way for efficient motion tracking

Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study

The Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS), which was launched on 22 November 2015, aspires to be an international centre of excellence for the advancement of technology and innovation by bringing together an interdisciplinary team of world-renowned scholars and researchers, including Nobel laureates and academicians, to contribute to the solutions of pressing real-world problems.

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Research Institutes, Centres and Laboratories

CityUHK has established a range of research institutes and research centres, including two state key laboratories and one national engineering research centre, covering different areas of strategic importance to foster interdisciplinary research.

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Mainland Research Institutes

To intensify CityUHK’s research impact in the region, two institutes in Shenzhen and Chengdu in mainland China have been set up.

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Overarching Research Themes

CityUHK adopts an open and collaborative approach to research, sharing results for a positive impact on the world. In line with this ethos, we have identified three overarching research themes to pursue that specifically respond to the academic and societal challenges we all face in our highly interconnected world.

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Research Support and Grants

CityUHK sees research as one of the key pillars for becoming a leading university in the region. The University provides different resources and support, from world-class research facilities to administrative support on funding applications, to create an environment for researchers to achieve innovative and high-quality research.

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Knowledge Transfer and Innopreneurship

CityUHK research efforts have created a broad range of knowledge, discoveries and inventions. We believe by encouraging knowledge transfer, we can turn these new findings into applications, benefiting our community in Hong Kong and beyond.

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Academicians, Senior Fellows and Academic Staff

CityUHK is proud to count among our faculty some of the world’s most respected scholars and academicians. They contribute fundamentally to our success as a leading global research institution.

Academicians at CityUHK HKIAS Senior Fellows Academic Staff

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Five scholars honoured with CityUHK Presidential Research Excellence Award
08 Oct 2026
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Five scholars honoured with CityUHK Presidential Research Excellence Award
CityUHK held the CityUHK Presidential Research Excellence Award Ceremony to honour five distinguished scholars. The awardees have made remarkable achievements, advancing their respective disciplines and making a transformative impact in the fields of media and communication, biomedicine, computer science and chemistry.
55 CityUHK scholars garner major national research funding, reaffirming excellence in research
06 Oct 2026
About CityUHK, Research News
55 CityUHK scholars garner major national research funding, reaffirming excellence in research
CityUHK has recently secured prestigious grants from both national and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area funding schemes, reflecting the strong national recognition of CityUHK scholars and the quality of their research, while reinforcing the University’s commitment to fostering scientific innovation in support of national development.
CityUHK researchers advance spatial omics to routine clinical use
28 Sep 2026
About CityUHK, Research Stories
CityUHK researchers advance spatial omics to routine clinical use
To address the challenges faced by spatial omics, a research team led by Professor Shi Peng from the Department of Biomedical Engineering in College of Biomedicine at CityUHK has presented Spectrum-FISH, a sequencing-free and amplification-free approach for the spatial analysis of tissue.

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13 Oct 2026 (Tue)

9:30 AM - 6:15 PM

(13 October 2026) [Symposium] IMAGINING PHOTOGRAPHY - Symposium on 200 Years of Photography

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16 Oct 2026 (Fri)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

LT Research Forum: Grammar and Heuristics: Child Language as a Window to the Mind (Speaker: Prof. Kamil DEEN)

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21 Oct 2026 (Wed)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

LT Research Forum: Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Language Processing (Speaker: Prof. Pedro Paz-Alonso)

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