Ophelia Tsui

Prof. Ophelia Tsui is an experimental condensed matter physicist, specializing in the dynamics of polymers under nanoscale confinement and at interfaces. She earned her PhD in Physics from Princeton University and completed postdoctoral research at MIT and UMass Amherst. She has held faculty positions, including full professorships at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Boston University (BU). Currently, she is a professor of physics at HKUST, an adjunct professor at BU, and the Director of Nano Science and Technology at HKUST.

Her research on the dynamics of polymer thin films has led to her election as a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). She has also received the Sir Edward Youde fellowship and the Swire scholarship.

Prof. Tsui is currently a Senior Editor for Progress in Polymer Science (Elsevier), and a member of the advisory/editorial board for ACS Applied Engineering Materials and Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics (Wiley). She previously served as the Council Chair of the Physical Society of Hong Kong, an affiliate of the APS, as the external examiner for the undergraduate physics curricula at the University of Hong Kong, and as an editorial board member for Macromolecules and ACS Macro Letters.