Prof Charles Ng of Civil Engineering Department has been awarded the Overseas and Hong Kong, Macau Young Scholars Collaborative Research Fund by the National Science Foundation of China
Prof Charles Ng, Civil Engineering, and Prof Yun-Min Chen of Zhejiang University, have been awarded the Overseas and Hong Kong, Macau Young Scholars Collaborative Research Fund by the National Science Foundation of China. Their three-year project, launched in January 2007, focuses on “Three-dimensional Centrifuge and Numerical Modeling of Tunneling Effects on Dykes”. This is an extremely competitive award for young scholars aged below 45 from any field to apply. Only two scholars in Hong Kong were awarded last year.
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