Philip C.Y. Chow received his B.Sc. degree from Imperial College London, and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong and serves as the Associate Head of Department for Teaching and Learning. His research interests include organic electronics, optoelectronics, exciton physics, solar cells, photodetectors, heat transport, and functional polymers. He was awarded the UK EPSRC Doctoral Training Award in 2010, JSPS Overseas Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2016, the Hong Kong RGC Early Career Scheme in 2022, and the NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Fund in 2022. He is an Associate Editor of PRX Energy, a journal published by the American Physical Society (APS). He has been recognised as one of Clarivate’s Top 1% Scientists Worldwide since 2024.