Research Faculty
Acting Head
Associate Professor
![Stanley Chun Kwan LAU](/sites/oces-e2.uat01.ust.hk/files/2022-10/Prof_Stanley_Chun-Kwan_LAU%20%281%29.jpg)
Stanley Chun Kwan LAU
PhD in Biology
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Email: scklau@ust.hk
Research Interests:
Marine microbial ecology; genome composition, population genetics and ecophysiology of cryptic Escherichia in the marine environment; horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes; microbial source tracking of fecal pollution in coastal marine environment
David von Hansemann Professor of Science
Chair Professor
![Peiyuan QIAN](/sites/oces-e2.uat01.ust.hk/files/2022-10/Prof_Peiyuan_QIAN.jpg)
Peiyuan QIAN
PhD in Marine Biology
Univeristy of Alberta
Principal Investigator of Center for Marine Bioactive Substances
Email: boqianpy@ust.hk
Research Interests:
Marine Molecular Ecology focusing on omics and symbiosis of deep-sea marine invertebrates as well as marine biofilms; and Marine Chemical Ecology focusing on marine natural products for new antibiotics and non-toxic antifouling coatings.
Chair Professors
![Jianping GAN](/sites/oces-e2.uat01.ust.hk/files/2022-10/Prof_Jianping_GAN.jpg)
Research Interests:
Ocean circulation and marine ecosystem dynamics and numerical ocean modeling in the China Seas; oceanic processes in estuaries/bays in the coastal waters, the South China Sea and Western Pacific basins; inter-disciplinary research in coupled physical-biogeochemical dynamics through numerical modeling, field measurement and process study in the China Seas.
![Hongbin LIU](/sites/oces-e2.uat01.ust.hk/files/2022-10/Prof_Hongbin_LIU.jpg)
Research Interests:
Current research focuses on factors that control microbial (with the emphasis on cyanobacteria) biomass, diversity, production and metabolism in different marine ecosystems; microbial food web dynamics to biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nutrients in the ocean, and their relation to the global warming; environmental issues in Hong Kong coastal waters, such as harmful algal bloom and coastal hypoxia.
Associate Professor
![Qinglu ZENG](/sites/oces-e2.uat01.ust.hk/files/2022-10/Qinglu_ZENG_250x300.jpg)
Qinglu ZENG
PhD in Biological Sciences
The State University of New York at Albany
Email: zeng@ust.hk
Research Interests:
The role of bacteria and their viruses (bacteriophages) in marine ecological processes and the molecular mechanism of their adaptation to the environment; to understand marine ecosystem functioning from the molecular level.
Assistant Professors
![Yan WANG](/sites/oces-e2.uat01.ust.hk/files/2022-03/yan_wang_250x300-jpg.jpg)
Research Interests
Baroclinic turbulence over continental slopes, eddy-mean flow interactions and eddy parameterizations in numerical ocean models, detection and tracking of Lagrangian Coherent Structures via satellite altimetry records and model outputs.
![Julian MAK](/sites/oces-e2.uat01.ust.hk/files/2022-03/P000002053-jpg.jpg)
Research Interests
Geophysical fluid dynamics, wave/eddy-mean flow interactions, global/regional/idealised numerical modelling of the ocean, inverse and data assimilation methods, high performance computing, applied mathematics
![Charmaine Cheuk Man YUNG](/sites/oces-e2.uat01.ust.hk/files/2022-03/P000002075-jpg.jpg)
Charmaine Cheuk Man YUNG
PhD in Marine Science and Conservation
Duke University
Email: ccmyung@ust.hk
Research Interests
Microbial oceanography; understanding how environmental factors and anthropogenic activities influence microbial structure and functioning, characterizing microbial interactions at different trophic levels, studying algal viral ecology and genomics
![Alex S.J. WYATT](/sites/oces-e2.uat01.ust.hk/files/2022-03/Alex-SJ-WYATT-jpg.jpg)
Alex S.J. WYATT
PhD in Marine Ecology and Oceanography
The University of Western Australia
Email: wyatt@ust.hk
Research Interests
Linking oceanographic processes and the ecological structure and function of globally threatened marine ecosystems and species. Coastal biogeochemistry, coral reef ecology, mesophotic coral ecosystems, trophic ecology, isotope ecology, Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER), ecological engineering, and ecosystem restoration.
![Jiying LI](/sites/oces-e2.uat01.ust.hk/files/2022-03/Jiying%20Li%201-jpeg.jpeg)
Research Interests
Biogeochemistry of lakes and oceans, focusing on the cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur and redox metals; geochemistry and early diagenesis of sediments, stable isotope geochemistry, nutrient dynamics and phytoplankton ecology
![Ding HE](/sites/oces-e2.uat01.ust.hk/files/2022-03/Portrait%20photo-HE-%20Ding%202021-jpg.jpg)
Research Interests
Biogeochemistry and carbon cycling along the river-estuary-coastal continuum during the Anthropocene; Stable isotope geochemistry; Cycling of organic matter investigated by the molecular biomarker fingerprint and the state-of-the-art ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry; Big-data techniques (e.g., machine learning) and their application in marine organic geochemistry.
![Longjun WU](/sites/oces-e2.uat01.ust.hk/files/2022-10/LW_adjusted3.png)
Longjun WU
PhD in Evolution, Ecology, Genetics, and Genomics
University of Rochester
Email: longjunwu@ust.hk
Research Interests
Evolution of marine animal biodiversity; Stress-induced adaptation; Ecological and evolutionary genomics; Developmental evolutionary biology; Evolution of cell types; Deep-sea adaptation.
![Qiong ZHANG](/sites/oces-e2.uat01.ust.hk/files/2022-10/P000003041_2.jpg)
Research Interests
Interactions of the biosphere and the geosphere; feedbacks of marine ecosystem to the change of environment; trace metal cycling and stable isotope biogeochemistry; microbial proteomics and transcriptomics.
![Masayuki USHIO](/sites/oces-e2.uat01.ust.hk/files/2022-10/USHIO.png)
Research Interests
Monitoring community dynamics using environmental DNA; Forecasting community dynamics using statistical tools; Environmental DNA analysis; Fish community; Microbial community; Statistical modeling; Machine learning; Nutrient cycling
Teaching Staff
Lecturers
![Cindy Ka Sin LAM](/sites/oces-e2.uat01.ust.hk/files/2022-03/Propic_Cindy_Cropped-jpg.jpg)
Cindy Ka Sin LAM
PhD in Marine Environmental Science
University of Oldenburg, Germany
Email: envscindy@ust.hk
Teaching and Research Interests
Marine larval biology and ecology, allelopathy of marine macroalgae, marine biofilms, conservation of marine habitats and environmental field studies in Hong Kong. Actively involved in teaching projects related to active learning pedagogy and gamification, and other STEM projects in microplastics detection and removal process, ocean farming.
![Content (Lecturers Cynthia Sin Ting Yau)](/sites/oces-e2.uat01.ust.hk/files/2022-03/P000002544-jpg.jpg)
Teaching and Research Interests
Biodiversity, Marine ecology, Marine environment, Marine plankton ecology and Marine conservation
![Veronica Shui-yee LEUNG](/sites/oces-e2.uat01.ust.hk/files/2022-03/Veronica%20S%20Y%20Leung_250x300-jpg.jpg)
Teaching and Research Interests
Food microbiology and food safety, foodborne and waterborne pathogens.