Anderson SHUM
- President and Founding Member, The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences
- Vice-President (Research) and Chair Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
- Founding Centre Director and Co-Director, Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation Centre
Professor Anderson Ho Cheung SHUM is the Vice-President (Research) and Chair Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering in Department of Chemistry, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Department of Materials Science and 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 15thGuanghua 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. He currently serves as an Editorial Board Member for Colloids and Interfaces (MDPI AG), an Editorial Advisory Board Member for Lab-on-a-Chip (RSC), an Editor-at-large for Droplet (Wiley), an Editor for Biomedical Instrumentation (Elsevier) and Microsystems & Nanoengineering (Springer Nature), and an Associate Editor for Biomicrofluidics (AIP).
Speech Topic
Connecting, Cultivating, Contributing through Cross-Cultural Collaborations: The Role of Young Academics and Scientists in Hong Kong