Pauline Chiu
University of Hong Kong
Convening Panel
Affiliations
Organic Chemist and Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hong Kong.
Biography
Pauline Chiu was born in Hong Kong, and grew up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She completed her B.Sc., M. Sc. and Ph .D. in Chemistry at the University of Toronto, in Canada, then continued to postdoctoral work at Columbia University in New York, USA. She started her independent career at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hong Kong, where she has been Professor in organic chemistry since 2011. She served as Associate Dean of Teaching in the Faculty of Science from 2013-2017, and she has been an Associate Editor of the American Chemical Society journal, Organic Letters, since 2019.
GFI Writings
Pauline Chiu
University of Hong Kong
Virtues in Science: Research Supervision and Collaboration
“Social practices, institutions, and communities can be conducive, or not, to developing and sustaining the virtues” Jennifer Herdt Beyond intellectual virtues or skills that give the capacity for the attainment of knowledge, there are some obvious moral virtues for scientists as they relate to thei…
Pauline Chiu
University of Hong Kong
Virtues Can Counteract the Academic Cult of Productivity
Today’s researchers in the sciences face pressures in a “publish or perish” research environment. In pursuit of rankings or other key performance indicators set out by meta-institutions, the university administration passes these pressures to professors and research supervisors to generate data and …