HKUST Scholar Receives 2026 Croucher Innovation Award

Prof. Jue WANG, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, has been named a recipient of the 2026 Croucher Innovation Award.

The Croucher Foundation’s Innovation Awards support exceptionally talented scientists at a formative stage of their careers. Prof. Wang’s research sits at the frontier of quantum and condensed-matter physics.

The School of Science continues to recruit outstanding faculty from institutions such as Cambridge, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Oxford, Princeton, UC Berkeley, UCLA and U Penn — scholars who bring diverse, interdisciplinary perspectives to fundamental questions in science.