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10 MSE Scholars recognized as Top 0.05% Highly Ranked Scholars (Lifetime) by ScholarGPS

3 十二月 2025

We are delighted to share that 10 MSE faculty members have been recognized as 2025 Highly Ranked Scholars (Lifetime), placing them in the top 0.05% of scholars (14,581 in total) across all fields worldwide, as announced by ScholarGPS.

This year, 10 out of 28 CityUHK Highly Ranked Scholars are affiliated with materials science and engineering, as detailed in the table below:

Global Rank (All Fields)	Faculty Member	Field	Discipline	Department
#910	CHU, Kim-ho Paul	Engineering	Materials Science and Engineering	PHY (joint appointment with MSE)
#2250	ZHANG Hua	Physical Sciences	Chemistry	CHEM (joint appointment with MSE)
#3367	JEN Alex K.Y.	Engineering	Materials Science and Engineering	MSE (joint appointment with CHEM and SEE)
#4759	ZENG Xiao Cheng	Physical Sciences	Chemistry	MSE
#5150	ROGACH Andrey L.	Engineering	Materials Science and Engineering	MSE
#7689	ZHU Yuntian	Engineering	Materials Science and Engineering	MSE
#8653	LU Jian	Engineering	Materials Science and Engineering	MNE (joint appointment with MSE)
#10216	LEE Chun-Sing	Physical Sciences	Chemistry	CHEM (joint appointment with MSE)
#10424	GUO Zaiping	Engineering	Chemical Engineering	MSE
#13711	LIU Bin	Engineering	Materials Science and Engineering	MSE

CityUHK boasts the highest number of Highly Ranked Scholars in Hong Kong for the second year running. Below are the institutions in Mainland China and Hong Kong with the largest number of Highly Ranked Scholars in 2025:

Institutions	No. of Highly Ranked Scholars
City University of Hong Kong	28
Tsinghua University	28
University of Hong Kong	20
Chinese University of Hong Kong	16
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	16
Hong Kong Polytechnic University	15
Peking University	11
University of Science and Technology of China	11
Zhejiang University	11
Shanghai Jiao Tong University	9

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to our outstanding MSE scholars. Their lifelong dedication to science and technology has made significant contributions to our field and has further enhanced the international standing of CityUHK’s Materials Science programme.