Prof. Ming-Hung Wong
Research Chair Professor of Environmental Science, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Prof. Wong is currently Advisor/Research Chair Professor of Environmental Science, The Education University of Hong Kong; Distinguished Visiting Professor of School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology; Emeritus Chair Professor of Hong Kong Baptist University, and Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Geochemistry and Health (Springer). His research areas included environmental and health risk assessments of persistent toxic substances, ecological restoration of contaminated sites, and recycling of organic wastes, with emphasis on upgrading food wastes as fish feeds. He has published over 700 papers, edited 26 books/special issues of scientific journals, and has successfully filed 5 patents. He has been awarded two DSc Degrees, based on his publications, by University of Durham and University of Strathclyde (both UK) in 1992 and 2004, respectively. He is one of the 3160 highly cited researchers (all disciplines) in the world, with an H-index>100.

Professor Wong served as the Coordinator of Central and North-East Asia of the project "Regionally based assessment of Persistent Toxic Substances", and as a Panel Member (of three experts) of another project "Chemicals Management Issues of developing countries and countries with economies in transition", both sponsored by UNEP/GEF, during 2001-2003, and 2010-2012, respectively. He was awarded the Croucher Senior Fellow (Croucher Foundation of Hong Kong) in 1997, the Royal Society Visiting Fellow (Royal Society, UK) in 2000, Chang Jiang Chair Professor of Environmental Science (Ministry of Education of China) in 2014, and the Milton Gordon Award for Excellence in Phytoremediation (International Phytotechnology Society) in 2016.