Alumni

The ET lab would not be where it is now without the contributions from all these wonderful individuals!

Carl Cheung Yik Ngai      2019 Jun - 2020 Jul     UG

1. Designing DNA Sensors for Rare Diseases

HKU Final Year Project Student

​Secondary School  King Ling College (HKDSE)

Boxing

Yu Shang-Bo     2020 May - 2020 Jul     PDRA

1. Biomimetics

PhD Fudan University
BSc Central China Normal University

Basketball, badminton, riding, hiking, climbing, music, reading, history

Jae Elise Payong     2019 Feb - 2020 Jun     UG

1. Analyzing Proton Carriers in Hybrid Bilayer Membrane Electrodes

2. Developing New Classes of Artificial Cation and Anion Channels

Laidlaw Scholar

​Secondary School Australian International School Saigon (IB Diploma)

Amateur cook, footballer and quidditch player, coffee connoisseur

Nicholas Yuen     2018 Sep - 2019 Mar     PD

1. ​​​Developing Bioinformatics and Proteomics Tools to Identify New Redox-active Metalloproteins as Cancer Biomarkers

PhD Chinese University Hong Kong
MSc Chinese University Hong Kong
MSc King’s College London
BSc Imperial College London

Trying out new restaurants, ​searching for gourmet food

He Beibei     2019 Apr - Oct     ​RA

1. ​Overexpression and Purification of Putative [4Fe4S] Protein Targets

MSc Shanghai Jiao Tong University
BSc Jiangnan University

Playing football, watching football, running

Kwan Ming Tam      2019 May - Aug      Summer Visiting Student

1. Effect of Chirality-induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) on the Reaction Kinetics and Mechanism of Interfacial Catalysts

2. ​Electro-organic Synthesis

Québec Mobility Bursary Fund from Québec’s Ministère de l'Éducation et de l'Enseignement supérieur (MEES)

Overseas Exchange Concordia University (Canada)

Fish keeping, biking, swimming

Alexia Ching Yee Chan      2019 Aug​    High-school Lab Shadowing Student

1. Biofilm Removal

YMCA Boundless Lab Shadowing Programme

Secondary School Leung Shek Chee College (HK)

Drawing, listening to music, and reading articles and books about science

Joe Jo Lam Leung      2019 Aug    High-school Lab Shadowing Student

1. Water Pollutants and Bioremediation

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​YMCA Boundless Lab Shadowing Programme

Secondary School S.K.H. Chan Young Secondary School (HK)
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Doing sports, in particular playing badminton and table tennis

Ben Hin Chi Wong      2019 Aug    High-school Lab Shadowing Student

1. Wearable Sensors

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​YMCA Boundless Lab Shadowing Programme

Secondary School S.K.H. Chan Young Secondary School (HK)

Biotechnology

Li Zhuoying      2019 Jul - Aug     LabX Exchange Student

1. Preparation of SAM-coated Au Nanoparticles for Raman Spectroscopic Studies​

HKU LabX Programme Imperial College London (UK)

Argentine tango, ballet, taekowndo

Ye Xiangyu      2019 Jul - Aug     LabX Exchange Student

1. Synthesis of Precursors for Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAMs)

2. Preparation of SAM-coated Au Nanoparticles

HKU LabX Programme Southern University of Science and Technology (PRC)

Badminton, billiards, biking

Zhou Yiqin      2019 Jul - Aug     LabX Exchange Student

1. Exploring the Use of Solid-phase Peptide Synthesis to Prepare Bio-inspired Catalysts for Wastewater Treatment

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HKU LabX Programme ​Shandong Normal University (PRC)
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Taekwondo, swimming, cooking

Nicholas Tam      2019 Jun - Jul     ​Summer Visiting Student

1. Developing Bioinformatics Tools to Identify Putative Disease-relevant Biomarkers

Overseas Exchange University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)

Basketball, watching NBA games

Li Shani      2019 Jul     LabX Exchange Student

1. Investigating New Materials using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy

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HKU LabX Programme ​Beijing Institute of Technology (PRC)

Climbing, playing Guzheng, watching movies

Hoi Kin Wong     2019 Jan - May     UG

1. ​​Electrochemistry-assisted Crystal Growth 

Secondary School Carmel Pak U Secondary School

Doing chemistry experiments, collecting elements