Prof. Johnny C. L. Chan Dept. of Physics & Mat. Sci., City University of Hong Kong 83 Tat Chee Ave., Kowloon, Hong Kong, CHINA Tel: 852-2788-7820    Fax: 852-2788-7830 Email: Johnny.Chan@cityu.edu.hk

        Prof. Johnny Chan received his bachelor and master degrees in physics from the University of Hong Kong.  After obtaining his Ph.D. in atmospheric science from Colorado State University, USA, he received a US National Research Council Post-doctoral Fellowship to perform research at the US Naval Postgraduate School.  Later, he became an Adjunct Research Professor there.

        Prof. Chan returned to Hong Kong in 1986 to join the then Royal Observatory Hong Kong (now the Hong Kong Observatory) as a scientific officer.  In 1989, he became a Senior Lecturer at the then City Polytechnic of Hong Kong and has been with the institution (now the City University of Hong Kong) since then.  He is now the Chair Professor of Applied Physics and an Associate Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering.  He is also a Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellow. 

        Prof. Chan is internationally renowned in the research areas of typhoons and monsoons.  In recent years, he is also actively involved in the study of air pollution over Hong Kong.  He has over 200 publications, including journal articles and conference papers. 

        Prof. Chan is a member of the Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones of the American Meteorological Society, and of the Committee on Dynamic Meteorology of the Chinese Meteorological Society.  He is also an editor of the Advances in Atmospheric Sciences journal and the Bulletin of the Hong Kong Meteorological Society.