Welcome Class of 2021
After a competitive review process conducted by a team of local and overseas scientists from a wide range of disciplines, 23 recipients were chosen. Croucher study awards cover tuition fees (for scholarships), maintenance allowance, medical insurance allowance, airfare, and allowances for attending international conferences.
The awards are restricted to doctoral and postdoctoral levels of studies in the natural sciences, technology, and medicine. The maximum for a three-year doctoral scholarship may be as high as HK$2 million each, while that of a postdoctoral fellowship for two years may be up to HK$1 million each.
This year’s class features scientists heading out all over the world for doctoral and post-doctoral research at universities and institutes in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.A.
Winners of the Croucher Scholarships 2021
Ms Dorothy Cheng Wai Chung - for doctoral study at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg on the nanoscale architecture of the cell cortex and its role in cell division
Mr Chow Ka Ho - for doctoral study at Georgia Institute of Technology on efficient and robust real-time video analytics with hybrid multi-cloud orchestration
Mr Chung Ngai Lam - for doctoral study at the University of Oxford on membrane matrix protein assembly in the influenza A virus M1 protein
Mr Ne Myo Han - for doctoral study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on thermal transport in hexagonal boron nitride and its heterostructures
Mr Law Kai Hong - for doctoral study at the Imperial College London on particle physics at the Large Hadron Collider
Mr Levi Poon Wing Hei - for doctoral study at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on mirror symmetry and Gromov-Witten invariants
Mr Lemuel Szeto Lut Ming - for doctoral study at the University of Oxford on nanopore-based discrimination of individual residues in peptides aided by selective chemical modification
Mr Tai Wai Ting - for doctoral study at the University of Pennsylvania on optical control of non-equilibrium correlated phases in twisted bilayer materials
Mr Yuk Wong - for doctoral study at the University of Pennsylvania on co-optimisation of deep neural networks and their implementations
Winners of the Croucher Cambridge International Scholarships 2021
Ms Chim Man Mei - for doctoral study at the University of Cambridge on the impacts of volcano-climate interactions on future climate projections
Miss Huang Qingzhou - for doctoral study at the University of Cambridge on the development of a universal H1 and H5 influenza A virus mosaic nanoparticle vaccine with inhibited binding to host sialic acid receptors
Mr Gordon Lee Mang Hei - for doctoral study at the University of Cambridge on cosmological boostrap
Winner of the 2021 Croucher Studentship
Mr Chan Kwun Nam - for doctoral study at the University of Hong Kong on the mortality of bipolar disorder and mood stabilizers associated adverse psychiatric and physical outcomes
Winner of the 2021 Butterfield Croucher Studentship
Miss Wong Hei Man - for doctoral study at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on rapid thick tissue surface imaging for intraoperative histology via microscopy with ultraviolet surface excitation using Speckle Illumination and deep learning assistance
Winners of the Croucher Fellowships 2021
Dr Vincent Cheung Ka Ming - to undertake postdoctoral research at Academia Sinica, Institute of Information Science on reconstructing perceived sounds from human brain activity using deep neural networks
Mr Lam Ho Tat - to undertake postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on quantum field theory and its applications
Mr Jasper Lee Chun Hin - to undertake postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on theory-driven practical approaches to efficient inference algorithms
Mr Albert Law Yuk Ting - to undertake postdoctoral research at Harvard University on aspects of de Sitter and flat space holography
Dr Loey Mak Lung Yi - to undertake postdoctoral research at Barts Liver Centre, Blizard Insitute on the role of hepatitis B surface antigen in chronic hepatitis B infection, focusing on effects on peripheral and intra-hepatic lymphocyte populations
Dr Wang Hai-Xu - to undertake postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on graphite-conjugated catalysts for green electroorganic synthesis
Dr Wu Man Wai - to undertake postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on multiple decker metallocene-containing polymer with magneto-optical activity
Dr Yue Lu - to undertake postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School on the role of RUNX1:CBFB inhibitor Ro5-3335 in hematopoietic stem cell expansion and clonal participation
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In 2018, Croucher Foundation introduced Croucher Science Communication Studentships to support young applicants pursuing a Master’s Degree in Science Communication who are passionate about becoming effective science communicators and bringing science alive for the young people in Hong Kong.
Winner of the 2021 Science Communications Studentship
Mr Donovan So Boon Hong - to pursue a Masters in Educational Technology and Applied Learning Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Good luck to all our Croucher Fellows and Scholars of 2021!