Prof. Anderson Shum Vice-President (Research), City University of Hong Kong

Professor Anderson Ho Cheung Shum is the Vice-President (Research) and Chair Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He holds a PhD and a master’s degree in applied physics from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University. His research interests include aqueous two-phase systems, emulsions, biomicrofluidics, biomedical engineering and soft matter. 

Professor Shum has received numerous awards, including the Lab on a Chip & Aline Pioneers of Miniaturisation Lectureship (2025), the 15th Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Prize from the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE, 2024), the RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme (SRFS, 2024), and the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship (2020). He was also selected as a Young Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering (2024), and as Fellows of the International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM, 2023), the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE, 2023), and the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, 2017). 

Professor Shum is the President and a founding member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences, and the Founding Centre Director and Co-Director of the Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation Centre.