Martin  Man-chun Li  (李文俊)
Associate Professor
RGC Research Fellow

Research Interests:

• Geometric Analysis, Geometric Partial Differential Equations, General Relativity

Education:

• PhD, Stanford University (2011) - Supervisor: Prof. Richard Schoen

• BSc, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2006)

Academic Positions Held:

• Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2020-now)

• Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2014-20)

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013-14) - Mentor: Prof. Tobias Colding

• Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of British Columbia (2011-13) - Mentor: Prof. Ailana Fraser

Selected Honours/Awards:

• RGC Research Fellow (2025) link, CUHK link 1, 2

• Hong Kong Mathematical Society Young Scholar Award (2021)  link

• CUHK Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award (2020)  link

• NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Fund (Hong Kong and Macau) (2020)  CUHK link 1, 2, Local news 1, 2

• Croucher Fellowship for Postdoctoral Research (2013) link

• Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowships for Overseas Studies (2006) link, Local news

Academic Activities:

• Geometric Analysis Seminar (2015-present)

• IMS-MATH Joint Colloquium in Pure Mathematics (2020-2024)

• International Conference on Recent Advances in Nonlinear PDEs and Their Applications (2023)

• MIST 2023 Workshop on Geometry (2023)

• MIST: A Satellite Conference to the "International Congress of Basic Science" (2023)

• MIST 2019 Workshop on Geometric Analysis, Algebraic Geometry and Symplectic Geometry (2019)

• MIST 2018 Symposium on Geometric Analysis (2018)  program

• Workshop on Geometric Analysis and General Relativity (2018) 

• Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium (2016)  program

• Distinguished Lecture Series and Workshop on Geometric Analysis (2016)  program

• Mini-workshop on Differential Geometry (2014)  program

Selected Outreach and Educational Activities:

• "Soap Films, Minimal Surfaces and Beyond", Newsletter 12, Hong Kong Laureate Forum (2021)  link

• Science Exposition, prelude to Hong Kong Laureate Forum (2021)  video link

• Newsletter, CUHK Science Faculty (2021)  link, video

• "Geometric Analysis: from soap bubbles to black holes", outreach talk at New Wave Mathematics, CUHK (2016) link