CUHK :: Professor Henry N.C. Wong

Professor Henry N.C. Wong

Pro-Vice-Chancellor / Vice-President
Professor of Chemistry

Education & CUHK Employment

Education
BSc 1973, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
PhD 1976, University College London
DSc 1994, University of London

CUHK Employment

2009-present	Pro-Vice-Chancellor / Vice-President
1996-present	Professor of Chemistry
2002-10	Head, New Asia College
1992-96	Reader, Dept of Chemistry
1988-92	Senior Lecturer, Dept of Chemistry
1983-88	Lecturer, Dept of Chemistry

Research Interest

Syntheses and studies of non-natural molecules and naturally occurring molecules, use of furans in organic synthesis

Honours & Awards

	Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1999
	Croucher Senior Research Fellow, 1999-2000
	Fellow, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, 2004

Telephone
(852) 3943 8636

Email
hncwong@cuhk.edu.hk

Facsimile
(852) 2603 5769

Office
2/F, Room 215
University Administration Building
The Chinese University
of Hong Kong
Shatin, NT
Hong Kong SAR
The People's Republic of China

Other Professional Activities

Professional Associations

	Chairman, Management Committee, Shanghai-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory in Chemical Synthesis, 1999-present
	Secretary-General, International Organizing Committee, International Symposia Series for Chinese Organic Chemists, 2000-present
	Member, International Advisory Committee, International Symposia Series on Novel Aromatic Compounds (ISNA)

Editorships

	Member of the Advisory Board, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2000-10
	Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Chemical Communications, 2003-present
	Senior Referee of the Regional Editorial Office (Shanghai), Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron Letters, 2003-present

	Member of the Advisory Board, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2005-present
	Member of the International Advisory Board, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2005-present
	Honorary Advisor to the Editorial Board, Heterocycles, 2006-present
	Member of the Editorial Board, Chemistry, An Asian Journal, 2006-present
	Member of the Advisory Board, Reaxys Database, 2007-present
	Regional Advising Co-Editor, Synlett, 2007-present
	Series Editor, Topics in Current Chemistry, Springer, 2009-present