Peng Gong#
| Membership Number: | 5281 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.geog.hku.hk/professor-p-gong |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1513-3765 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - present Chair Professor of Global Sustainability, Department of Earth Sciences and Department of Geography, the University of Hong Kong
- 2016 - 2020 Professor and Chair of the Department of Earth System Science, Dean of School of Sciences (2017-2020), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- 1980 - 1986 Studies at Nanjing University
- University of British Columbia (1986-1987) and University of Waterloo (1987-1990)
- 1990 - 1991 Research Scientist, York University
- 1991 and 1994 Assistant Professor, Department of Geomatics Engineering at the University of Calgary (Canada)
- Assistant Professor (1994-1997), Associate Professor (1997-2001), Full Professor (2001-) Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) between 1994 and 2014
Fields of Scholarship
- Remote sensing
- Global environmental change studies
- Environmentally-related infectious disease modeling
- Public health
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Mei Yiqi Memorial Award for Research, Tsinghua University
- 2017 Outstanding Associate Editor, Science Bulletin
- 2016 Outstanding Author Award (10 total), Board of Directors, Science China and Science Bulletin
- 2016 Best Dissertation Award, First Class, Tsinghua University (Out of 26, Directed research)
- 2015-2021 Honorary Professor of Medical School, University of Exeter, UK (Approved on July 28, 2015)
- 2014 “Most contributing author” for publications in Chinese Science Bulletin after 2012
- 2014 Top “most read” paper in International Journal of Remote Sensing among 502 papers published in 2013
- 2012 Plenary Speaker, 22nd Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Melbourne, Australia, August 29th, 2012.
- 2008 Outstanding Contributions in Remote Sensing Award, Association of American Geographers
- 2006 One of 3 Invited Overseas Participants to the Congress of Science and Technology of China
- 2004 Member of Advisory Expert Group, Ministry of Science and Technology, China (A total of 9)
- 2002 Distinguished Service Award, International Association of Chinese Professionals in GISci
- 2000 Honorary Professor, Sichuan Institute of Parasitic Diseases, P.R. China
- 1999 Overseas Expert Assessor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 of 33 selected worldwide
- 1998 National Outstanding Young Scientists Award for Overseas Chinese, China, 1 of 30 selected worldwide
