Welcome to Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU).
Founded in 1989, we now become a modern comprehensive university. We tailor our professional programmes to adapt to market trends and meet industry needs, thus providing our students with quality professional education and clear career paths.
Our signature programmes include areas in high demand, such as nursing, physiotherapy, medical laboratory technology, building services engineering, surveying, creative arts, early childhood education, business management and corporate governance. Our efforts and achievements in providing professional education are evidenced by the largest share in the number of subsidised places under the Study Subsidy Scheme for Designated Professions/Sectors (SSSDP), funded by the Hong Kong SAR Government.
Our faculty and staff ensure that our students have a solid academic foundation and equip them with essential work skills and capabilities through internships, global immersion programmes, and collaborative initiatives with our business and industry partners.
HKMU launched a Global Faculty Recruitment Campaign to recruit quality academics from all over the world and a Central Faculty Fund to provide additional funding to attract such talent. Also available is the Faculty Advancement Fund for faculty members to undertake scholarly activities locally or overseas for up to 12 months.
HKMU aims to be a faculty-driven, student-centred university in support of innovative teaching and learning, strategic research, and stakeholder outreach to provide maximum benefit to our communities.
At HKMU, we conduct research that advances knowledge and enhances teaching, focusing on strategic areas, including digital humanities and literature, international business, gerontechnology, personalised care, smart city, open and innovative education, and bilingual learning and teaching. These research areas are uniquely relevant and beneficial to the development of Hong Kong and the region.
Our University is becoming an ever more vital link in addressing and helping Hong Kong to solve many difficult challenges – as part of our involvement in, and commitment to, the 'metropolis' of Hong Kong. Our plans to expand into the Greater Bay Area (GBA) through the planned HKMU (Zhaoqing) will also cultivate talent to serve Hong Kong and the wider metropolitan GBA.
Stay tuned to this website for our latest endeavours and exciting plans for the future.
Professor Paul LAM Kwan-sing
President
| Doctor of Philosophy | 1988 | University of Sheffield, United Kingdom |
| Master of Philosophy | 1984 | University of Hong Kong |
| Bachelor of Science | 1982 | University of Hong Kong |
| Occurrence, Bioaccumulation, and Toxicities of Emerging Chemicals of Concern in Environmental Matrices, Second Class Natural Science Award, Ministry of Education, People’s Republic of China 2019 (as Principal Investigator) |
| Environmental process mechanism and quantitative structure-activity relationship study on emerging pollutants, Second Class Natural Science Award, Ministry of Education, People’s Republic of China 2012 (as Co-Investigator) |
| Geochemistry and risk assessment of perfluorinated compounds in the Chinese southeastern coastal region, Second Class Natural Science Award, Ministry of Education, People’s Republic of China 2011 (as Principal Investigator) |
| Distinguished Alumni Award 2019, Faculty of Science, University of Hong Kong |
| Award, Silver Bauhinia Star, Hong Kong SAR Government (2014) |
| Member, HKSAR Justices of the Peace (non-gov), Hong Kong SAR Government (2008) |
| Visiting Fellow, National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology, Australia (1998) |
| Jackson Memorial Fellow, Griffith University, Australia (1998) |
| Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship tenable at King’s College, London (1987-1989) |
| Commonwealth Scholarship tenable at the University of Sheffield (1984-1987) |
| ‘Highly Commended Talk’ award for a paper delivered to the British Ecological Society in 1984 |
| Swire Scholarship, the University of Hong Kong (1983-1984) |
| Postgraduate Studentship, the University of Hong Kong (1982-1984) |
| City University of Hong Kong: | |
| 2020-2021 | Executive Director of Special Projects, Vice-President Level (Concurrent appointment) |
| 2020-2021 | Jeanie Hu Professor of Science |
| 2005-2021 | Chair Professor, Department of Chemistry, |
| 2013-2019 | Chief-of-Staff (Vice-President) (Concurrent appointment) |
| 2010-2020 | Director, State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution (Concurrent appointment) |
| 2009-2013 | Vice-President (Student Affairs) (Concurrent appointment) |
| 2007-2008 | Acting Vice-President (Undergraduate Education) (Concurrent appointment) |
| 2004-2007 | Associate Dean, Faculty of Science and Engineering (Concurrent appointment) |
| 2006-2007 | Acting Head of Department, Department of Biology and Chemistry (Concurrent appointment) |
| 2001-2005 | Professor (Reader), Department of Biology and Chemistry |
| 1996-2001 | Associate Professor (Scale A), Department of Biology and Chemistry |
| 1994-1996 | Associate Professor (Scale B), Department of Biology and Chemistry |
| 1992-1994 | Lecturer, Department of Environmental Management |
| 1990-1992 | Lecturer, Department of Biology |
| 1988-1990 | Lecturer, Department of Applied Science |
| Master of Philosophy: | 19 completed |
| Doctor of Philosophy: | 50 completed; 5 in progress |
| Editor-in-chief | Aquatic Toxicology (2020-present) |
| Subject Editor | Ecosystem Health and Sustainability (2014-present) |
| Associate Editor | Journal of Environmental Sciences (2015-present) |
| Member | Editorial Advisory Board, Environmental Science & Technology (since 2010) |
| Member | Editorial Board of Advances in Environmental Research (AER) (since 2011) |
| Member | Editorial Board of Environmental Chemistry (HUANJING HUAXUE) |
| Associate Editor | Chemosphere (Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment) (2004-2008) |
| Hon. Professor | Nanjing University, China |
| Hon. Professor | South China Normal University, China |
| Hon. Professor | University of Queensland, Australia |
| Visiting Prof. | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. |
| External PhD Advisor | Shantou University, China (2017-2019) |
| Member | Management Committee and Steering Committee of the Marine Ecology Enhancement Fund, Hong Kong Airport Authority (2016-2020) |
| Member | Advisory Council on the Environment, HK SAR Government (2005-2016) |
| Deputy Chairman | Advisory Council on the Environment, HK SAR Government (2009) |
| Chairman | Advisory Council on the Environment, HK SAR Government (2010-2016) |
| Member | Town Planning Board, Hong Kong SAR Government (2006-2012) |
| Member | Country and Marine Parks Board, Hong Kong SAR Government (2005-2011) |
| Chairman | Marine Parks Committee, Country and Marine Parks Board, Hong Kong SAR Government (2005-2011) |
| Member | Marine Mammal Conservation Working Group, Hong Kong SAR Government (2001-2007) |
| Member | Red Tide/Harmful Algal Bloom Expert Advisory Group, Hong Kong SAR Government (2004-2020) |
| Member | Management & Development Committee of the Mai Po Marshes, WWF Hong Kong (2001-2005) |
| Member | Wetland Advisory Committee, HK SAR Government (1999-2004) |
| Chairman | Management sub-committee, Wetland Advisory Committee, HK SAR Government (1999-2004) |
| Member | HKSAR Steering Committee for Research Themes under the Research Endowment Fund (2009-2017) |
| Member | Advisory Committee on Post-service Employment of Civil Servants, HK SAR Government (2011-2017) |
| Member | Independent Commission Against Corruption Operations Review Committee (2015-2020) |
| Member | HKSAR Witness Protection Review Board Panel (2015-2020) |
| From Ministry of Science and Technology, Peoples’ Republic of China: | ||
| Year | Source | Amount (in HK$) |
| 2018 | Research Projects funded by the Mainland Government “亞熱帶香港水域海洋與河口食物網中傳統與新興鹵化阻燃劑研究：富集特徵、營養轉移及源辨識” “Conventional and Emerging Chiral Halogenated Flame Retardants in Marine and Estuarine Food Webs in Subtropical Hong Kong Waters: Accumulation Profiles, Trophic Transfer, and Source Identification” | 1,152,000 |
| From Hong Kong SAR Government: | ||
| Year | Source | Amount (in HK$) |
| 2017 | Sustainable Fisheries Development Fund (SFDF) “魚排上建立示範及教育單位，展示商業上可行的循環海水育苗系統” “Establishment of a commercially viable recirculating system for rearing fish fingerlings: a demonstration project for public education” | 3,778,880 |
| From Municipal Government of Shenzhen: | ||
| Year | Source | Amount (in RMB) |
| 2017 | Shenzhen Innovative Technology Committee “Study on Ecological Thresholds in Urbanized Coastal Bay Areas” | 2,000,000 |
| From Natural Science Foundation of China: | ||
| Year | Source | Amount (in HK$) |
| 2012 | Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Grant Assessment and Characterization of Novel and Unknown Per- and Polyfluorinated Compounds in Pearl River and Yangtze River Delta | 917,000 |
| From Hong Kong Research Grants Council: | ||
| Year | Source | Amount (in HK$) |
| 2012 | NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme, Research Grants Council Pharmaceuticals in Municipal Sewage Treatment Works of China: Behaviour and Risk Assessment | 815,701 |
| 2015 | Collaborative Research Fund (CRF), Research Grants Council “Benthic and epiphytic toxic algae (BETA): An emerging threat to coral ecosystems in Hong Kong waters” | 5,573,636 |
| 2009 | Collaborative Research Fund (CRF), Research Grants Council “Algal Toxins: Development of Analytical and Bioassay Detection Methods and Assessment of Environmental Transfer in Marine Food Webs” | 3,200,000 |
| 2016 | General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grants Council “Environmental assessment of chiral pharmaceuticals in Hong Kong and its surrounding region: occurrence, fate and potential toxicological significance” | 540,824 |
| 2014 | General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grants Council “Conventional and emerging halogenated flame retardants in marine and estuarine food webs in subtropical Hong Kong waters: accumulation profiles, trophic transfer, and source identification” | 683,570 |
| 2013 | General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grants Council “Population trends, food sources, habitat use, and trace element exposure of marine mammals in Pearl River Delta: using teeth as biological time capsules for tracing environmental changes” | 435,614 |
| 2010 | General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grants Council “Measurement and assessment of novel halogenated flame retardants in waterbirds and marine cetaceans in Hong Kong” | 462,000 |
| 2008 | General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grants Council “Distribution, accumulation, and trophic transfer of perfluorinated compounds, and total and extractable organic fluorine in an aquatic food web of a tropical wetland” | 401,336 |
| 2007 | Earmarked Research Grant (CERG), Research Grants Council “Measurement and assessment of perfluorinated compounds in waterbirds and marine cetaceans in Hong Kong” | 685,937 |
| 2005 | Earmarked Research Grant (CERG), Research Grants Council “Study of Perfluorinated Compounds and Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in the Pearl River Estuary” | 1,014,000 |
| 2004 | Earmarked Research Grant (CERG), Research Grants Council “Assessment of the Transfer of Contaminants Accumulated in Fisheries Resources to Cetaceans in Hong Kong: A Novel Assessment of Bioavailability Using an In Vitro Physiologically-based Extraction Test (PBET)” | 819,000 |
| 2003 | Earmarked Research Grant (CERG), Research Grants Council “Assessment of Risk to Cetaceans along the South China Coast Due to Contaminants with Special Reference to the Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins” | 841,000 |
| 2002 | Earmarked Research Grant (CERG), Research Grants Council “Assessment of Risk to Ardeids in Hong Kong Due to Organochlorine and Organotin Contaminants with Special Reference to the Mai Po/Inner Deep Bay Ramsar site” | 975,200 |
| 2000 | Earmarked Research Grant (CERG), Research Grants Council “Biokinetics and biotransformation of PSP toxins in green-lipped and common fan mussels in Hong Kong” | 823,400 |
| 1997 | Earmarked Research Grant (CERG), Research Grants Council “Use of protein phosphatase inhibition assay for screening tumour-promoting toxins in aquatic systems: a colorimetric approach” | 686,880 |
| 1996 | Earmarked Research Grant (CERG), Research Grants Council “Sublethal effects of toxicants on the patterns of energy allocation and nutrient utilization of freshwater snails” | 385,000 |
| As a core member of the Area of Excellence Scheme “Marine Environmental Research and Innovative Technology – MERIT” under the University Grants Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administration Region, China (Project No. AoE/P-04/2004). The total funding for a team of 23 local members and 5 overseas members is HK$45 million for 5 years (2004-2009). | ||
| As the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution (2010-2020), which receives HK$ 10 million annually from the Innovation and Technology Commission of the Hong Kong SAR Government. | ||
| > 30 major consultancy projects, with total contract value of > HK$40,000,000, including: |
| “Provision of Consultancy Services to Develop Options for a Fisheries Monitoring Programme in Hong Kong” for Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (2019-2021) |
| “Fish Resources Study for the Proposed Marine Park in the Brothers Islands” for Highways Department (2012-2017) |
| “Provision of Services for the Technical Review and Statistical Analysis of the Datasets of Waterbird Monitoring Programme for the Deep Bay Area” for Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (2012-2016) |
| “Assessment of Environmental Contaminants in Marine Mammals in Hong Kong” for Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (2008-2009) |
| “Study on Persistent Organic Pollutants in Local Waterbirds in Hong Kong” for Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (2006-2007) |
| “Independent Expert to Investigate the Alleged Claim of High Oyster Mortality in Deep Bay due to the HK-SWC Construction Works” for Highways Department (2004) |
| “Development of a Biological Indicator System for Monitoring Marine Pollution” for Environmental Protection Department (2001-2003) |
| “Consultancy Study on Fisheries and Marine Ecological Criteria for Impact Assessment” for Agriculture and Fisheries Department (1999-2001) |
| “Environmental Impact Assessment on the Construction of a Large Thermal Power Station (approx. 5000 MW) at Black Point” for China Light and Power Company (1991) |
| “Environmental Impact of Marine Fish Culture Industry in Hong Kong” for Hong Kong Government (1989-1990) |
