Prof. Ophelia KC Tsui

Prof. Ophelia Tsui is an experimental polymer physicist. Her research focuses on the dynamics of polymers under nanoscale confinement. She received her PhD in Physics from Princeton University in 1996. Afterwards, she was a postdoc at MIT (1996-1997) then at UMass Amherst (1997-1998).  In 1999 and 2007, she joined the faculty of the department of physics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Boston University, respectively, and was promoted to the rank of full professor in the latter. Currently, she is a professor of physics at HKUST. Prof. Tsui serves as an advisory board member of Macromolecules, ACS Applied Engineering Materials, and Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics. She was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2011 for her work on the dynamics of polymer thin films. She has been the Council Chair of the Physical Society of Hong Kong - an affiliated society of the APS, a Croucher fellow and a Swire scholar.