PhD Advisors at The Chinese University of Hong Kong 香港中文大学HK
Quick answer: The Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong has 830 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 22 currently show active PhD hiring signals (as of 2026-10-19). phd-match covers 174 universities across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore, not just one country.
Research-focused faculty at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
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⭐ Currently Hiring PhD Students (22)
Professors at The Chinese University of Hong Kong with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Alexander Green
Associate Professor 副教授 · Faculty of Law
⭐ He welcomes potential PhD candidates in any and all of these areas.
public international law, legal philosophy, political theory, law of State creation, continuity, and extinction, self-determination of peoples, international law and climate change, rights of Indigenous peoples, law of the sea, philosophy and theory of public international law, i…
Research Assistant Professor · Faculty of Medicine
⭐ Research/Job Opportunities: PhD student, Postdoctoral fellow, Junior Research Assistant
(a) Investigating the molecular roles of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection in the development of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC),
(b) Preclinical assessment of translational strategies to NPC using 3D organoid culture, patient-derived xenograft model and humanized mice model,
(c)…
Assistant Professor (Full-time) · Faculty of Social Science
⭐ Liquid Territories is actively seeking collaborations with postdoctoral researchers and research assistants. For more information, visit: www.liquidterritories.com
Urban Design Theory and Method
Urban Design Pedagogy
Urban Morphology
Water Urbanism
Pearl River Delta
Northern Metropolis
Associate Professor, Director of MPhil-PhD in Architecture Programme · Faculty of Social Science
⭐ Chu welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD applicants. A short proposal including a set of research questions will help initiate a conversation.
History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism
Cultural Landscapes and Heritage Studies
Infrastructure
Material and Visual Culture
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Built Environment Research
⭐ Students majoring in Linguistics, Psychology, Education, Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field are welcome to contact him regarding the Ph.D. program application. He is also actively seeking Postdoctoral fellows and Research Assistants (RA) to join his lab (https://neurolangl…
Language Sciences, Neurolinguistics, Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, Language Learning and Processing Mechanisms, Speech and Semantic Representation
⭐ Our team welcomes applications from individuals interested in pursuing postgraduate research degrees (MPhil/PhD) in the field of nutritional psychiatry. Candidates with a bachelor's/master's degree in nutrition and expertise in the gut microbiome are strongly encouraged to apply.
Lifestyle medicine for mental health and the role of the gut microbiome; Circadian rest-activity rhythm (RAR) phenotyping in major depressive disorder; Transdiagnostic sleep medicine in psychological disorders; Personalised mental health care (Just-in-time Adaptive Interventions …
Presidential Chair Professor · Faculty of Engineering
⭐ We have multiple PhD and Postdoc openings, including joint supervision with CUHK and SLAI. To apply, please email me your CV and representative publications.
Professor of Anatomical & Cellular Pathology (ACP) Department, CUHK · Faculty of Medicine
⭐ Dr. To is a supervisor for Ph.D. students and post-doctoral fellows.
Dr. To's research interests include common Asian Cancers and in particular Nasopharyngeal cancer, Lung cancer, and Gastrointestinal cancers. As a practicing pathologist, his service interest also involves Molecular Diagnostic. He also participates in clinical trials and is servic…
⭐ Professor Noked is interested in supervising Ph.D. students specializing in international taxation and tax policy. Prospective students with a strong interest in these areas are encouraged to contact him.
Tax policy, International taxation, Tax administration and compliance, Law and economics
⭐ *Interested doctoral applicants are advised to email both their CV and proposal related to Barry’s research areas and focuses. The candidates will receive an email reply if Barry is interested.
Young learners, self-regulated learning (SRL), social and emotional learning, motivation, second language writing, e-learning, SRL strategies, classroom culture/environment, English teacher professional development and K-12 education settings
⭐ Currently I am recruiting postgraduate students. Candidates with backgrounds in transport geography, urban geography, GIS, or sociology are welcome to apply.
Shared Mobility
Shared Micromobility
Transport Geography
Sharing Economy
Urban Geography
The Social and Urban Impact of Technological Advancement
⭐ Currently I am recruiting postdoctoral fellow, postgraduate student and research assistant. Candidates with the backgrounds of environmental science, atmospheric science, computer science and remote sensing are welcome to apply. If you are interested to work with me, please feel free to send me your…
Air Pollution Modeling
Atmospheric Chemistry
Emission Inversion
Machine Learning/Deep Learning
⭐ I am currently recruiting postdoctoral fellow, postgraduate student and research assistant with the background of computer science, SAR/InSAR remote sensing, GIS, and signal and information processing. Please contact me via email if you have the interests.
SAR/InSAR remote sensing
Mars/Moon exploration
Carbon neutrality
sustainable development
⭐ I am currently recruiting postdoctoral fellows, PhD students, and research assistants with backgrounds in remote sensing, GIS, AI, ecology, and environmental science. Outstanding undergraduate students with a strong interest in research are also encouraged to apply. Please email me your CV if you ar…
Satellite remote sensing
AI for science
Urban geohazard
Terrestrial carbon cycle
⭐ Restorative justice, responsive regulation, cyberfraud prevention & policing, economic sociology, financialization, global governance, regulatory governance, ESG/SDGs. Open for: Ph.D. in Sociology; Doctor of Social Science; Research Assistant/ Research Associate/ Postdoc.
Transnational and global sociology; Comparative-historical sociology; The sociology of law and global governance
⭐ Postgraduate studentship and Postdoctoral fellowship positions are available. Please contact Dr. Kang for inquiries
1. The Hippo-YAP1 pathway in gastric carcinogenesis
2. The classification and roles of cancer-associated fibroblasts in gastric carcinogenesis
3. Identification of novel druggable targets based on molecular classification of gastric cancer
4. Development of Apatermer-based PROTAC…
⭐ Openings: We are recruiting PhD and Postdoc candidates, please email your applications to me directly if you are interested.
Our research group has broad interests in synthetic organic chemistry. The main focuses are centered on novel methodologies development and complex molecules synthesis. Research directions include: 1. Organocatalysis 2. Asymmetric halogenation reactions 3. Multi-component synthes…
Professor, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics; Director, Echocardiography Laboratory; Director, Laboratory of Cardiac Imaging and 3D Printing, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences; Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hospital Authority · Faculty of Medicine
Head and Chair Professor, Division of Environment and Sustainability, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Research Institutes and Centres
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Professor
Director, Global Studies Programme
School of Governance and Policy Science · Faculty of Social Science
Her research examines how complex, contradictory, and challenging issues can be transformed into opportunities so that people and society can thrive. Her research topics include multiculturalism and creativity, cosmopolitanism and globalization, paradox management, working mother…
MRI of the head and neck; MRI of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (patterns of spread, staging, predictors of treatment response; treatment induced complications; early detection and screening); MRI of squamous cell carcinoma and lymphoma; Functional MRI (DWI, MRS, DCE-MRI and CEST); MRI…
Research Assistant Professor · Faculty of Medicine
1. H. pylori-associated gastric carcinogenesis and tumour microenvironment evolution
2. Cancer-associated fibroblasts and stromal-driven immunosuppression in gastric cancer
3. Spatial transcriptomics and single-cell omics for high-resolution tissue architecture decoding
4. Hippo/…
Assistant Professor · Faculty of Business Administration
Market Participants, incl. Short Sellers, and Their Roles in Capital Market
Information and Decision-Making in Financial Markets
Corporate Governance and Activism
Financial Innovation and Emerging Digital Markets
Prof. Cai works on the psychology of language. In particular, he is interested in how people comprehend, produce and learn different aspects of language (especially lexicon, syntax and semantics), using behavioural methods (e.g., priming) complemented by neuroscientific (e.g., EE…
Optical Communications, Systems and Networks; Optical Metro/Access Network Architectures; Enabling Technologies and Networking Applications of Wavelength Division Multiplexed Passive Optical Networks; All-Optical Signal Processing and Conditioning of High Speed Optical Signals; P…
Professor, Department of Psychiatry · Faculty of Medicine
Mood disorder; Neuroimage-guided neuromodulation for treatment-refractory depression; Psychodynamic psychotherapy; Functional brain mapping for mood disorders; Network-informed transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment-refractory major depressive disorder
The research interests of my group focus on the wet-chemical synthesis of novel inorganic nanomaterials and their applications in catalysis and clean energy.
The construction of Daoxue history
Chinese imperial rituals
Ritual learning and Ritual Classics
Chinese historiography
History of Confucian ideas
Colonialism and post-colonialism
Tang and Song literature studies
Our main research goal is to develop synthetic methods to access organic compounds potentially valuable in academia and industry. Current research topics include: 1. Base metal catalysis 2. Photocatalysis 3. Carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond formation reactions 4. Bond act…
Decolonial thought and decolonial options; Southeast Asian Contemporary Art and Cultural Studies; Futurities Studies; Race, Gender and Sexuality; Island and Archipelagic Studies; Inter-Asian studies
Neuropsychology, Religious and Spiritual experience; Spirituality and Creativity; Life & Death Education: Religious Views on Life, Death, and the Afterlife
Professor · CUHK Colleges (College Affiliated Faculty)
Human disease modelling
Cellular, genetic and biochemical analyses of RNA and protein toxicity in neurological diseases
Therapeutic intervention of neurological diseases
Inhibitor that combats neurodegenerative diseases [Video]
Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, CUHK · Faculty of Science
Therapeutic development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Neurobiology of primary cilium and its role in human neurological disorders
Human stem cells and their neuronal derivatives
Structure-function of cell wall polysaccharides; Bioactive carbohydrates from mushroom and edible fungi; Chemical properties and biological functions of beta-glucans; Prebiotics, probiotics and gut microbiome; Polysaccharides as nano complexing agent for targeted drug delivery
Human beings are active agents whose thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are determined by their desires and needs. I have been conducting research to understand how motivations are expressed and fulfilled in goal pursuit and relationship processes. To fully appreciate the complexi…
Senior Lecturer, School of Life Sciences, CUHK · CUHK Colleges (College Affiliated Faculty)
Cell signaling in apoptosis
Cancer chemoprevention and chemotherapy with natural products targeting the molecular pathways in carcinogenesis
Applications of flow cytometry
Legal History, British Empire, International Institutions, International Procedural Law, Public International Law, Human Rights, Labor Law, Evidence Law
Experimental psychotherapy: The way people feel connected, knowing the emotion of other people and approaching the feeling of the self (Keywords: simulation, embodiment, perspective-taking, empathy, mindfulness, identity, self-compassion, and shame). Experimental psychopathology:…
Creative writing; 20th and 21st-century poetry in English; interactive, digital, and GenAI literatures; transpacific literatures; ecopoetics and documentary poetics; decolonization and demilitarization activism; archive studies
Associate Professor · Faculty of Business Administration
Consumer Judgment and Decision Making
Intertemporal Choices
Motivation and Self-control
Social Interactions
Behavioural issues related to AI and New Technology
Stanley Ho Professor of Respiratory Medicine · Faculty of Medicine
Respiratory failure and sleep disordered breathing, management of emerging severe acute respiratory infections, safety of respiratory therapy and prevention of nosocomial infections in the post SARS era, common airway diseases.
Assistant Dean (Alumni Affairs), Associate Professor, Department of Surgery · Faculty of Medicine
Interventional endosonography and Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiography; Robotics and Minimal invasive surgery for UGI cancers; Peritoneal Surface Malignancy; Endoscopic management of upper gastrointestinal bleeding; Endoscopic submucosal dissection and novel endoscopic resection…
Assistant Dean (Health Systems); Associate Professor (Clinical), Department of Medicine and Therapeutics; External Affairs Strategic Director, Phase 1 Clinical Trial Centre · Faculty of Medicine
Novel drugs and personalised therapeutics in diabetes and prediabetes
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) and wearable technologies
-sensor evaluation and application in populations including advanced diabetic kidney disease and prediabetes
Glucose clamp studies in diabetic and …
Assistant Dean (Clinical Curriculum); Associate Professor, Department of Surgery · Faculty of Medicine
Inflammatory bowel disease; Assessment and treatments of pelvic floor dysfunction and functional bowel disorders; International collaborative surgical research; Medical Education
Assistant Dean (Research); Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics · Faculty of Medicine
Neuroscience; Gliovascular dysfunction and therapeutic targeting in neurodegenerative disorders; Neural circuits mediating sensorimotor behaviors and their dysfunction in aging; Development of imaging tools and methods
Assistant Dean (Clinical Curriculum)
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics
Associate Professor, Institute of Digestive Disease · Faculty of Medicine
Early diagnosis of gastrointestinal cancers
Endoscopic resection of gastrointestinal cancers (endoscopic submucosal dissection, endoscopic full thickness resection)
Data science and artificial intelligence
Antithrombotics and gastrointestinal bleeding
Assistant Dean (Health Systems), Clinical Professional Consultant, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Professor of Practice in Orthopaedics and Traumatology (by courtesy) · Faculty of Medicine
Anthropology of globalization, Japanese contemporary culture outside Japan, Sino-Japanese cultural exchange, Japanese diaspora communities, Digital platforms and online work, Applications of augmented reality for learning & teaching
STEM/STEAM education, Game-based learning, Early science and math education, Science education, Teacher professional development on technology-enhanced pedagogies
Lecturer, Department of Curriculum and Instruction · Faculty of Education
Research interests include Integrating ICT and/or AI into Teaching and Learning, Generative AI in Education, Information Technology in Education, Collaborative Inquiry Learning, Computational Thinking, and Service Learning.
Research interests include: ICT in mathematics education; tool-based task design in mathematics education; mathematical thinking, problem solving and reasoning; spiritual development across school curriculum; religious studies.
Lecturer, Department of Curriculum and Instruction · Faculty of Education
Teaching and learning in primary and secondary mathematics,Value and valuing in mathematics education, Teacher professional learning (Lesson Study, action research), Cross-cultural comparison in mathematics education, Mathematics teacher education, and STEM/STEAM Education.
Clinical Professional Consultant, Department of Paediatrics; Associate Professor of Practice in Medical Genetics (by courtesy), Department of Paediatrics & Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Deputy Clinical Director, The Chinese University of Hong Kong – Baylor College Joint Center for Medical Genetics · Faculty of Medicine
Undiagnosed genetics disorders
Neuro-metabolic genetics
Inborn errors of metabolism disorders
Assistant Professor (Clinical), Department of Paediatrics · Faculty of Medicine
Neonatology
- Late preterm infants
- Biomarkers in Necrotizing Enterocolitis
- Respiratory virus infections in neonates
- Neonatal infections and chorioamnionitis
- Effects of maternal substance abuse on neonates
Management and outcome of infants with cleft lip and palate
Architectural design theories
Uncertainties in architectural processes
20th Century architectural productions
Sustainable Design Practices
Design for Disassembly
Hong Kong Public Housing
Dr. Horiuchi received his MA from Georgetown University and PhD from the University of Hong Kong. Prior to his appointment at CUHK, he served as a research fellow at the Japanese Consulate in Hong Kong. His primary research interests include Sino-Japanese relations, Chinese forei…
Chinese language education, Chinese language teacher education, Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL), Putonghua pedagogy, technology-enhanced learning
His recent research interests include technology adoption and diffusion of new technologies (e.g., VR/AR, s-commerce, smart classes, and telehealth) to boost productivity and well-being and the use of data to make a better decision.
AI-integrated pedagogy, design thinking, professional development of faculty and postgraduate teaching assistants, evidence-based approaches to teaching, assessment, differentiated training of graduate teaching assistants, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, emerging technologi…
Art technology
Intelligent and AI-assisted design
Textiles technology
Interactive design
Human-centred design
Digital illustration, visual storytelling, and comic-based education
DNA barcoding, molecular authentication of Chinese medicines, phytochemistry, systematic botany, pharmaceutical efficacy of traditional Chinese medicines, and neural stem cell research. Recent academic interests focus on sustainability education in higher education, with particul…
Technical development
Clinical decision support using artificial intelligence
Image reconstruction
Applied research
Stroke recovery mechanism
Brain modelling using graph neural network
Transnational Film and Screen Studies
Southeast Asian Cultural and Media Studies
Global Critical Theory
Urban Humanities
Historical Capitalism
Memory Studies
Inter-Asia Studies
Major Research Interests: The diagnostic aspects: a) clinico-pathological studies of glomerulonephritis in Hong Kong; b) pathological prognostic indicators of IgA nephropathy; c) grading of lupus nephritis for therapy & therapeutic trials; d) diagnostic approach to HBV-related gl…
How many professors at The Chinese University of Hong Kong are hiring PhD students in 2026?
As of 2026-10-19, 22 professors at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, a Hong Kong university, show active PhD hiring signals in phd-match's faculty database.
How many faculty profiles does phd-match have for The Chinese University of Hong Kong?
phd-match lists 830 faculty profiles at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, each with research interests, department, and a link to the professor's homepage.
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No. The Chinese University of Hong Kong is one of 174 universities phd-match covers across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore (US 97, UK 17, AU 10, CN 26, HK 8, CA 10, SG 6).
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Data last updated: 2026-10-19 · Source: phd-match.com faculty database.