About Prof. Tsui

Professional positions

• 2022-present: Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Chemistry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong
• 2015-2022: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong

Education and training

• 2013-2015: Postdoc (with Prof. Benjamin List, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021), Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany
• 2011: Visiting scholar (with Prof. Tamio Hayashi), Kyoto University, Japan
• 2008-2013: Ph.D. (with Prof. Mark Lautens, Officer of the Order of Canada), University of Toronto, Canada
• 2006-2008: Research Chemist in pharmaceutical companies, Merck & Co., Inc. and NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Canada
• 2004-2006: M. Sc. (with Prof. William Tam), University of Guelph, Canada
• 2000-2004: Honours B. Sc., University of Guelph, Canada

Honours and awards

• ACP Lectureship Award (Korea 2017, Singapore 2017, Japan 2018, Taiwan 2019)
• Thieme Chemistry Journals Award
• Humboldt-Bayer Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers
• Boehringer Ingelheim Award of Excellence in Organic or Bio-Organic Chemistry 
• JSPS Summer Program Fellowship
• Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship
• The Society of Chemical Industry Student Merit Award 

Experiences

Teaching:

• Synthetic Methods in Organic Chemistry (CUHK postgrad.)
• Physical Organic Chemistry and Aromatics (CUHK undergrad. 3rd year) 
• Basic Chemistry for Engineers (CUHK undergrad. 1st year)
• Organic Chemistry I (PNU, Korea, undergrad. 2nd year)
• Chemical Science Course – Applied Chemistry Adv. I (Osaka University, postgrad.)

Lecturer for summer courses:

• Science Academy for Young Talent (CUHK)
• Summer Institute (CUHK)

Lecturer for popular science:

• HK SciFest (HK Science Museum)
• The 12th Lau Oi Wah Memorial Science Lecture Series (CUHK)
• Lectures on Modern Chemistry (Royal Society of Chemistry)
• How Nobel Prizes are Won (CUHK)

Others:

• Outreach program with local secondary school
• Guest appearances on TV programs: History Channel (Canada) and Lokalzeit (Germany)
• Synfacts and Organic Synthesis contributor (Toronto)
• Science fair judge (Super Expo-Sciences Bell, Quebec)

Invited lectures, conference contributions, visiting professorship, editorial, advisory board

Conferences:

• 23rd International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (23rd ISFC), Quebec, Canada (2023) – invited
• 16th International Symposium for Chinese Organic Chemists (ISCOC-16), Beijing (postponed to 2023) – Invited
• 8th Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ACCC8), Organometallic Symposium, 2022, Taipei/virtual – invited
• 15th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (ICCEOCA 15) (2022 virtual), Hong Kong – invited
• Pacifichem 2020, Hawaii, USA (2021 virtual) – invited
• XXIX International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai, China – invited
• 5th International Conference on Organometallics and Catalysis, Hong Kong (2022 virtual) – invited
• 14th International Symposium on Organic Reactions, Yokohama, Japan (2020) – invited
• 9th Lingnan Organic Chemistry Conference, Guangzhou, China (2019) – invited
• 14th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia, Niseko, Japan (2019) – invited
• 9th Junior International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia, Busan, South Korea (2019) – invited
• 27th International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry Congress, Kyoto, Japan (2019)
• Gordon Research Conference on Heterocyclic Compounds 2019, Newport, USA
• 102nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Quebec, Canada – invited
• International Conference on Fluorine Chemistry ’19 Himeji, Himeji, Japan – invited
• 2nd National Organic Radical Chemistry Symposium of China, SUSTech, Shenzhen, China – invited
• 2nd Manchester-Shanghai-Hong Kong Trilateral Symposium on Chemistry Frontiers, CUHK, Hong Kong – invited
• 18th Tateshina Conference on Organic Chemistry, Nagano, Japan – invited
• 14th International Kyoto Conference on New Aspects of Organic Chemistry (IKCOC-14), Kyoto, Japan
• 13th International Conference on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry in Asia (ICCEOCA-13), Bangkok, Thailand – invited
• 15th International Symposium for Chinese Organic Chemists (ISCOC-15), Taipei, Taiwan – Invited
• 15th National Fluorine Chemistry Conference (中国化学会第十五届全国氟化学会议), Shanghai, China – Keynote
• XXII International Conference on Organic Synthesis (ICOS), Florence, Italy 
• 22nd International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (ISFC), Oxford, UK 
• 16th Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium (BOSS), Brussels, Belgium
• The 4th International Conference on Organometallics and Catalysis (OM&Cat), Taipei, Taiwan
• The 101th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Edmonton, Canada
• ​​Asian Core Program: “ICCEOCA-12/ARNCEOCA-3”, Xi’an, China – invited
• HK-SIOC Symposium (沪港合成化学前沿论坛及香港科技青年座谈会), Shanghai, China.
• ​​The 16th International Meeting on Boron Chemistry (IMEBORON), Hong Kong – invited
• The 19th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis (OMCOS), Jeju, Korea 
• The 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Toronto, Canada 
• The 14th International Symposium for Chinese Organic Chemists (ISCOC), Singapore – invited
• Asian Core Program: “ICCEOCA-11/ARNCEOCA-2”, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea – invited
• ​The 3rd International Conference on Organometallics and Catalysis, Seoul, Korea
• Asian Core Program: “ICCEOCA-10/ARNCEOCA-1”, Kaohsiung, Taiwan – invited
• 16th Tateshina Conference on Organic Chemistry, Nagano, Japan – invited

Invited lectures/visits:

• University of Freiburg, Germany (2023)
• University of Basel, Switzerland (2023)
• University of Strasbourg/LIMA Laboratory (Mulhouse and Strasbourg), France (2023)
• Department of Applied Chemistry, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan (2019)
• Department of Materials Engineering Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan (2019)
• Department of Nanopharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan (2019)
• Department of Material Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (2019)
• Department of Chemistry, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (2019)
• Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea.
• Pusan National University, Busan, Korea.
• University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
• East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
• Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
• South University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) of China, Shenzhen, China.
• POSTECH, Pohang, Korea.
• Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea.
• Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
• National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), Lanzhou, China.
• Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (中国科学院上海有机化学研究所), Shanghai, China.
• University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
• Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
• Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.

Visiting Professor/Lecturer:

• Osaka University, Osaka, Japan (2019)
• Pusan National University, Busan, Korea (2016)

Editorial/Advisory Board:

• Guest editor – Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, thematic issue on Organofluorine Chemistry/Compounds
• International Advisory Board Member (2021-2024) – Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry

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