CityU CHEM Alumni Gathering 2026

The CHEM Alumni Gathering 2026 was held at the Ritz-Cariton Hotel in Shenzhen on 12^th Jun 2026. This was the first time the alumni had held a reunion in Shenzhen. My wife and I arrived early and took a photo in front of the banner at the main entrance.

I met my senior classmate, Dr. Kent Lau. I remember he was only one part-time PhD student in the lab at that time, I believe it's because he worked in a government laboratory.

I also met Mr. Yip Wai Yuen who studied MSc in BCH department.

Then I took a photo with Prof. Andy Siu and Prof. Vincent Ko.

Mr. Otto Chan (Director, Business Development & Alliance, Synmosa) is my junior classmate. We always met in the BCH laboratory when I was MPhil student.

Before start the dinner, we took a group photo with Prof. Kenneth Leung (My classmate in AP & BCH) for memory. 

We took a selfie before dinner.

In the beginning, Prof. ZHU Guangyu (Head of CHEM) gave welcome speech and reported CityU and CHEM department’s international achievement.

Tonight's keynote speech was given by Dr. Zhou Hongwei (周宏偉, 南方医科大学深圳医院院长) , who was a PhD graduate of CityU in 2006. He appreciated Prof. Nora TAM training on bacteria in mangroves.

After that Prof. Wang Xin (Dean, College of Science), Prof. Kenneth Leung (VP, Research), Prof. ZHU Guangyu (Head of CHEM) presented souvenir to Dr. Zhou Hongwei and took a group photo. 

The professors at the head table toasted all the guests.

During the dinner, it has game to make friends with alumni using WeChat.

I took a photo with Ms. Crystal Wan, the event organizer, who arranged the event very well.

I met Dr. Larry Lo and three girl alumni who had been my students in the MSc in Environment Management and Technology. I taught the course named “BCH 6116: Quality and Environment Management for Laboratory".

Otto and I took a photo with Prof. Wang Xin.

Group photo in table 2

There is a group photo of all the guests at the tables.

I keep the email announcement for memory.

There were ten alumni tables at the event. I noticed that most of them were PhD graduates, since the event was being held in Shenzhen.

Remark: I completed my HD (Applied Science), BSc (AP) and MPhil (BCH) in 1992, 1994 and 1997, respectively. I would like to give a brief history of the BCHem. The Department of Applied Science was established in 1987 with four science disciplines namely Applied Biology, Applied Chemistry, Applied Physics and Materials Science. Then the Department of Applied Science (AP) was separated into Department of Biology and Chemistry (BCH) and Department of Physics and Materials Science (AP) in 1993. City Polytechnic of Hong Kong (CPHK) had upgraded to City University of Hong Kong (CityU) in 1994. After that BCH Dept. changed name to Department of Chemistry (CHEM) in 2017 and Department of Physics and Materials Science had already separated into Physics Dept. (PHY), and Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Dept.

Reference:

Department of Chemistry, CityU - http://www.cityu.edu.hk/chem/

20250627: CityU CHEM Alumni Gathering 2025 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/06/cityu-chem-alumni-gathering-2025.html

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Related to BCH Supervisors:

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20190127: Lunch with Dr. Ronald Sequeira and Mrs. Sequeira - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/01/lunch-with-dr-ronald-sequeira-and-mrs.html

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