Lo is an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong (PolyU). He joined the university in 2017 following undergraduate studies and a PhD in chemistry at the University of Oxford. He has published widely in his field, including in the Nature Catalysis, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Angewandte Chemie. In 2022, he won the Young Innovative Researcher Award at PolyU. Lo served as a Visiting Scientist at Diamond Light Source, a prominent national synchrotron facility located in the United Kingdom.