Professor David S.Y. Tong

Deputy President and

Professor ( Chair ) of Physics

City University of Hong Kong

Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Fellow of the American Physical Society

Curriculum Vitae

Professor David S.Y. Tong

	Deputy President, City University of Hong Kong (2003 - Present)
	Chair Professor, Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong (2001 - Present)
	B.Sc. HKU (1964), M.S. (1967), Ph.D. (1969), U. California-Irvine, NSF Fellow (1972), Cornell University.

　
Prior Employment :

	Chair Professor and Head, Physics Department, HKU (1994 - 2001)
	Distinguished Professor of Physics, U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1988 - 2000)
	Director, Laboratory for Surface Studies, U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1978 - 1994)
	Director, Condensed Matter Physics Program, National Science Foundation, U.S. (1988 - 1989)

	Visiting Professorships: U. California, Berkeley (1978), U. Wisconsin-Madison (1982-84), Arhus University, Denmark (1980), U. of California, Irvine (1980), Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Arizona State University (1988), Distinguished Lecturer, China Center of Advanced Science and Technology (CCAST), Beijing (1991).
	Member, Chinese Acadamy of Sciences, Fellow, American Physical Society, Chairman, Surface Science Division, American Vacuum Society (1986), Academic Oversight Committee of Academia Sinica, Taiwan (1994-2002), Croucher Foundation Senior Fellow Award (1997), Distinguished Research Award, U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1979), Fullbright East-West Center Award (1965).

	Consultant to IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (1974, 1975, 1981, 1983), Naval Research Laboratory (1973, 1975, 1977, 1980), Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1978, 1980), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1981), Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (1990, 1991, 1992), NASA Space Epitaxy Program (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994). Solid State Sciences Committee, the U.S. National Research Council (1980).
	Presidential Young Investigators Program, National Science Foundation (1990), Atomic Resolution Microscopy Program, National Science Foundation (1992), The DARPA VIP Thin Film Program (1987).
	Editor-in-Chief, Surface Review and Letters; Board of Editors, Acta Physica Sinica, Overseas Edition (1998-2002); Editorial Board of Encyclopedic Services of Materials Sciences Foundations, Germany (1998-).

　

Professor Tong is a world renowned surface scientist in the area of nanosurface studies. He was invited by Physics Today to write review articles in 1984 and 1975. His works were covered in the Physics in Action section of Physics World, the official publication of the British Physical Society, in Science and Vie, and in the Physics News section of Physics Today. Research results were included in C. Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics, 6^th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York.
　

Professor Tong has given numerous invited talks at major professional meetings, including invited talks at the March meeting of the American Physical Society (1972, 1979, 1994, 1997, 2001), the American Chemical Society Annual Meetings (1975, 1976, 1980), MRS meeting (1992, 2000, 2001) and the International Vacuum Congress (1977, 1980, 1994, 1998). He has also organized many conferences for the MRS, APS, IUPAPS and IUVSTA.

　

Professor Tong is the Honorary Director of the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale (2004-present). The National Laboratory is funded by the China Ministry of Science and Technology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

　

Professor Tong has published 6 books and over 260 research papers. Many paper appeared in journals with impact factors greater than 6.0 (Science, Advances in Physics, Physics Today and Physical Review Letters).