Dr. Stephen Chow is Associate Professor of Department of Science and Environmental Studies, concurrently Director of Knowledge Transfer, of The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd).
Dr. Stephen Chow has been actively involved in the field of environmental science and education for over a decade. He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. from the City University of Hong Kong. After graduation, he obtained a Croucher Foundation Fellowship and did his post-doctoral fellowship with Nobel laureate Jean Marie Lehn at the University of Strasbourg, France. Dr. Chow received The President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research (Early Career Research Excellence Award) from The Hong Kong Institute of Education in 2013. His current research interest lies mainly on plastic education and science research. In 2013, he and his team, obtained an $10 million fund to transfer their environmental research to real-world applications through the “I Act, U Act!” – Education for Plastic Waste Recycling in Primary Schools” and “Degradation and Mineralization of Plastics.”