At the 4th Asia Exhibition of Innovations & Inventions Hong Kong (AEII), three Gold Award-winning and two Silver Award-winning teams comprise members from the College of Science (CSCI).

College of Science (CSCI)’s chemist is once again recognised by academic bodies. Professor Guangyu Zhu, Head and Professor of the Department of Chemistry, recently received the James Hoeschele AsBIC Award from the Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry (AsBIC).

Professor Hua Zhang, an expert in nanomaterials and the Herman Hu Chair Professor of Nanomaterials from College of Science’s Department of Chemistry , recently received two prestigious awards: the Croucher Senior Research Fellowships 2025-26 and the Bank of China (BOCHK) Science and Technology Innovation Prize (STIP).

CityUHK has performed remarkably well in the latest global rankings: named Hong Kong’s No.2 in both the inaugural “Times Higher Education Interdisciplinary Science Rankings 2025 in association with Schmidt Science Fellows”, and the ShanghaiRanking’s “2024 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)”.

Three research projects led by City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) outstanding scholars have been awarded funding under the 2024/25 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Research Grants Council (RGC) Collaborative Research Scheme (CRS), . Professor Jeff Ou Zheyu, Chair Professor of the Department of Physics, takes the lead in one of the projects.

Fifteen scholars from the College of Science (CSCI) were named Highly Cited Researchers 2024 by Clarivate, which accounts almost half of the City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) list of 32 awardees.