Pro-Vice-Chancellor / Vice-President
Professor of Physics
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Professor Kenneth Young is a theoretical physicist, and is Professor of Physics and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He studied at the California Institute of Technology, USA (1965-1972), and obtained the BS in Physics (1969) and the PhD in Physics and Mathematics (1972). He joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1973, and has been Chairman of the Department of Physics, and later, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Dean of the Graduate School. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1999 and a Member of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2004. He was also a Member of the University Grants Committee and Chairman of its Research Grants Council. He served as the Secretary and then Vice-President of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies. His research interests include elementary particles, field theory, high energy phenomenology, dissipative systems and especially their eigenfunction representation and application to optics, gravitational waves and other open systems. |