Prof. WU Tao, Tom

Chair Professor of Frontier Materials

Professor Tom Wu (吳韜) is Chair Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He received his B.S. degree from Zhejiang University and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. Before joining PolyU as a STEM scholar, Dr. Wu worked at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney. Dr. Wu has authored nearly 400 peer-reviewed papers with citations of over 40,000 and a H-index of 105 (Google Scholar), and he has been listed among the Clarivate List of Highly Cited Researchers since 2019. In the past two decades, his research group has explored perovskite materials, including both oxide inorganics and halide hybrids, focusing on their electronic, magnetic, and optical functionalities. Prof. Wu is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He also serves as an Associate Editor for ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.