Welcome, Croucher Class of 2024!
We are delighted to announce the awarding of scholarships and fellowships to twenty-six brilliant young Hong Kong scientists this year. For this round of awards, we saw a very high number of high-calibre applications. The successful applications came from a wide range of disciplines: life sciences, physical sciences, engineering, mathematics, and computer science. Over the next few weeks and months, most of the scholars and fellows will set off to carry out their studies and research in institutions all over the world, including in Europe, the US, and Canada.
Sir Gregory Winter FRS, Chairman of the Noel Croucher Foundation, said: “We were very pleased to see so many talented and enthusiastic young scientists applying for awards this year. The quality and size of the field both suggest that the future of science in Hong Kong is very bright.”
Winners of Croucher Study Awards 2024
Croucher Scholarships 2024
Victor Cheung, for doctoral study at the University of British Columbia on DPP4+ fibro-adipogenic progenitors in chronic skeletal muscle myopathies.
AJ Fong, for doctoral study at the University of Waterloo on the Picard group and rational points on surfaces.
Thomas Lam, for doctoral study at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on neural circuits for limb reaching movements during social interactions.
Casey Leung, for doctoral study at the University of Toronto on the identification of positional information in regenerative organisms.
Krystal Lee, for doctoral studies at the University of Oxford on high voltage charge storage processes in “beyond Li” batteries.
Vinson Szeto, for doctoral studies at Columbia University on a climatology-informed theoretical study of free boundary problems.
Yiqi Huang, for doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on volume estimates for the nodal sets and singular sets of elliptic and parabolic equations.
Stephanie Halim, for doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on elucidating the effects of host proteostasis on mutational error catastrophe.
Thomas Li, for doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley, on ribosomal incorporation of sulfonamides for next-generation pharmaceuticals.
Croucher Cambridge International Scholarships 2024
Catherine Ngai, for doctoral study at the University of Cambridge on the development of novel asymmetric photocatalytic synthesis methodologies for C-N and N-N axially chiral biaryl compounds
Tommy Chau, for doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge on the field theory approach in condensed matter physics.
Oxford Croucher Scholarships 2024
Victor Chan, for doctoral studies at the University of Oxford on the engineering of cerebral organoids to model ageing and neurodegeneration.
James Au, for doctoral study at the University of Oxford in the synthesis, characterisation and investigation of the reactivity of vinyl oxonium ions.
Croucher Research Studentship 2024
Sandra Leung, for doctoral studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on the multiomics deciphering of the soybean-soil microbiome interplay for sustainable agriculture.
Croucher Science Communication Studentship 2024
Lucky Tsoi, for an MSc in Science Communication at Imperial College, London.
Croucher Fellowships 2024
Ching Ching Lam, to undertake postdoctoral research at the University of California, Los Angeles, on elucidating the catalytic mechanisms of biosynthetic pericyclases with novel computational methods.
Peter Pang, to undertake postdoctoral research at the University of Potsdam on the topic of astronomy versus nuclear physics: seeking dissonance between space and lab.
Eric Zhao, to undertake postdoctoral research at Stanford University on interfacing with the enteric nervous system with stretchable and adhesive bioelectronics.
Sarah Leong, to undertake postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on advancing lithium-ion batteries through cathode and electrolyte interphase design.
Henry Hung, to undertake postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford on the emergence and maintenance of somatic mutation in the long lifespan of pedunculate oaks.
Alvin Li, to undertake postdoctoral research at the University of Tokyo on probing the higher redshift early universe through gravitational lensing of gravitational waves and multi-messenger astronomy.
Alex Siu, to undertake postdoctoral research at Stanford University on topological inference for neuroscience.
Bryan Tang, to undertake postdoctoral research at Harvard University on microporous water for accelerated wastewater remediation.
May Chim, to undertake postdoctoral research at the University of Exeter on volcanic risks on climate extremes and global food security.
Jordy Lam, to undertake postdoctoral research at the University of Southern California on machine learning for drug discovery: combinatorial chemistry and virtual screening.
Kit Ng, to undertake postdoctoral research at the University of Bath on machine vision with semiconductor network lasers.