The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is pleased to invite outstanding scholars to contribute to our thriving research agenda as well as to Hong Kong’s leading position in the region and beyond.

We will recruit 100 outstanding academics in emerging fields with potential for scientific and scholarly breakthroughs—above and beyond our existing recruitment programme—to join HKU as assistant, associate, or full professors, on tenure-track or with direct tenure.

This is an open-discipline call. The strategic recruitment areas in the Faculty of Science are: Geometry, Algebra, Number Theory, Optimization, Scientific Computing, and Data Science; Quantum Matter, Information and Optics, Photonics; AI in Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Natural Product Chemistry, Physical and Analytical Chemistry, Energy and Catalysis, Computational Chemistry, Ultrafast and Single Molecule Spectroscopy; Molecular and Cellular Biology in Biomedicine, Plants and Microbes; Environmental DNA, Ecology and E...