Tak-Ming Chan is currently a Professor of Structural Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Steel Construction (Hong Kong Branch) and Editor for Thin-Walled Structures. He is currently leading a 5-Year Research Impact Fund project funded by the Research Grants Council (RGC) on "Achieving the Circular Economy in Construction through Deconstruction and Reuse Technologies for Steel and Composite Structures. He is the 2022 recipient of the prestigious award, The Nishino Prize, which is presented by the East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC). His research achievements have also been recognized by numerous awards from the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and the Institution of Structural Engineers in United Kingdom, and he has received multiple awards in teaching and knowledge transfer.He is also on the 2023 Stanford’s List of World’s Top 2% Scientists (single-year).
Prof. Chan graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a first-class honours degree in civil engineering before starting his structural engineering career at Arup (Hong Kong). He was the recipient of a number of prestigious University scholarships, including the Chevening Scholarship and Hutchison-EPSRC Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award. His master's degree in structural steel design and PhD in tubular structures were both from Imperial College London. He also received his Postgraduate Certificate in Academic and Professional Practice from the University of Warwick.