Professor Ming-Hung Wong
Position
Professor 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, and Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Geochemistry and Health (Springer).
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.

Research Area
Professor Wong’s 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”.

Awards&Recognitions
He has published over 660 SCI papers and 32 book chapters, edited 25 books/special issues of scientific journals, and has successfully filed 5 patents.Professor Wong 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.
Awarded the Croucher Senior Fellow (Croucher Foundation of Hong Kong) in 1997, the Royal Society Visiting Fellow (Royal Society, UK) in 2000, Emeritus Chair Professor of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2013, 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. Professor Wong is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Geochemistry and Health (Springer).