Science Communicator, Science educator, and science edutainer

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Fiona joined the Center for Language Education (CLE) at HKUST in 2016 and taught a range of undergraduate courses. In the past few years, she led The Informal Curriculum for Language Learning (iLANG) team and students to organise events which successfully raised students‘ interest in English language and complement their academic learning. She believes the important factors which motivate students to learn are mutual trust and respect. 自2016年加入香港科技大學語文教育中心以來，Fiona教授了一系列深受學生喜愛和歡迎的課程。在過去幾年，她作為iLANG統籌帶領團隊成員為學生舉辦了豐富的課外語言學習活動。這些活動既激發了學生對英語學習的興趣，又幫助提升了他們的學術能力。她深信，師生間的互相信任和尊重是學生學習的重要動力。

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Dr Yu is an Astrophysicist working in the Faculty of Science, HKU. He obtained his PhD in Astrophysics on topics of Gamma-Ray Bursts from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Depute-Editor-in-Chief of "Physics Bimonthly", Physical Society of Taiwan, and Programme Host of the TV talk show "Science Night", RTHK TV31. He also authored many popular science books, including the award-winning "Time - A Spacetime Journey of Astronomy and Physics". 余海峯博士是個在香港大學理學院工作的天體物理學家。他從德國馬克斯普朗克地外物理研究所得到天體物理學博士學位。他曾於瑞典皇家理工學院任博士後研究員、台灣物理學會《物理雙月刊》任副總編輯，以及香港電台電視31清談節目《五夜講場－真係好科學》任節目主持。他亦是許多科學普及書藉的作者，包括獲得不少奬項的《宙-天文物理時空之旅》。 

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Dr. Helen Ma, PhD in Microbiology, is a Science Communicator active on TV shows (Science Night 2018-2021 and Tutor Online 2020 on RTHK31), social media and popular science writings (The News Lens). Dr. Ma is the Associate Programme Director (Science Education Programme “SciTouch”) of Audio Description Association (Hong Kong) and Education Committee of Hong Kong Astronomical Society and an experienced Docent of Hong Kong Science Museum. 馬學綸博士，香港中文大學微生物學博士，現為科學傳播研究者。曾任科普電視節目主持(港台電視31：五夜講場－真係好科學 2018-2021、上網問功課－同行抗疫)，定期在網上平台發表科普文章(關鍵評論網)。馬博士亦是香港口述影像協會副課程總監 (科學教育計劃「觸聲一族」)、香港天文學會教育委員及資深香港科學館導賞員。

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Dr. Karen Mak is a science communicator and teacher since she finished her PhD at HKUST. Over the last 17 years, she has been teaching courses such as general education and Bioanalytics to MSc students at universities locally and overseas. Karen has been actively contributing to popsci where she can be found as a popular guest host on TV programmes. She can also be found in various media outlets to explain everyday, sometimes profound, science. An English book entitled ‘Biotechnology in Cartoons’ was translated into Cantonese by her. Her involvement in an EDB funded project developing STEM activities for secondary students has been recognised. To help her fans to understand the scientific world, she has her own instagram account, FaceBook page and YouTube channel. 麥嘉慧博士，人稱Karen博士、麥博。現為自由科普作者，亦是電視／網絡科普節目中老是常出現的主持。2004年畢業於香港科技大學後便踏上教師之路。曾於新加坡國立大學任教3年，2008年回港先後在本地幾間大學工作，教授通識教育以至化學碩士課程。譯有《卡通生物科技》（英譯粵／中）。她還有在自己的 Instagram、面書粉絲專頁和YouTube頻道傳遞科學知識。