University of Hong Kong Postdoctoral and Research Opportunities 2026: Complete Guide to Open Research Positions at HKU

University of Hong Kong Postdoctoral and Research Opportunities 2026: Complete Guide to Open Research Positions at HKU

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is offering a wide range of research and academic career opportunities across engineering, biomedical sciences, medicine, dentistry, chemistry, microbiology, environmental science, computing, and other disciplines.

For researchers looking for postdoctoral fellowships, research positions, and academic opportunities in Hong Kong, HKU is one of the institutions worth monitoring closely. The university's career portal regularly publishes opportunities covering both fundamental and highly applied research.

The opportunities listed in this guide cover research areas ranging from drug delivery and nanomedicine, oral microbiology and organoids, cancer biology, structural biology, viral-host interactions, metagenomics, materials science and organic chemistry to climate modeling, biomedical engineering and environmental research.

This article provides a detailed overview of the HKU opportunities listed, including their reference numbers, departments, research areas and application information.

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University of Hong Kong Postdoctoral Opportunities 2026

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a leading research university in Hong Kong with extensive research activity across science, medicine, engineering, humanities, social sciences and interdisciplinary fields.

Its research environment is particularly attractive for PhD graduates interested in:

• Biomedical research
• Nanomedicine
• Drug delivery
• Cancer research
• Microbiology
• Virology
• Biomaterials
• Chemistry
• Materials science
• Biomedical engineering
• Environmental science
• Climate research
• Computational science
• Public health
• Dentistry
• Pharmaceutical sciences

The career opportunities listed below represent a broad selection of research areas currently associated with HKU's recruitment activities.

Ref.	Faculty/Department/School/Centre/Unit	Research Area
To be announced	Real Estate and Construction	Age-friendly design, Building Greenery, Older Adults, Wellbeing, Cross-country Model Development
532478	Real Estate and Construction	Greenhouse gas emissions modeling; Reduced-complexity modeling of the land surface carbon cycle; Climate modeling. Climate mitigation modeling
To be announced	Urban Planning and Design	Leveraging Responsive GeoAI and Big Data for Community Resilience
532565	English	Forensic speech science
532494	Dentistry	Oral Microbiology, Organoids
To be announced	Civil Engineering	Intelligent operation and maintenance and health monitoring of wind farm; spatiotemporal prediction of wind and wave fields; intelligent forecasting of tropical cyclon
To be announced	Civil Engineering	Extreme rainfall, flood hazard, climate change
To be announced	Civil Engineering	Modular integrated construction (MiC), Digital building, Autonomous crane lifting
To be announced	Civil Engineering	Modular integrated construction (MiC), Digital construction and infrastructure, Construction safety
To be announced	Civil Engineering	Structural engineering, Seismic Resilience, Performance-based Design, Seismic isolation
To be announced	Civil Engineering	Construction Materials
To be announced	Computing and Data Science	Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
To be announced	Electrical and Electronic Engineering	Development of an innovative Quantum Diamond-based Cell Protrusion Force Microscope (QDPFM)
To be announced	Electrical and Electronic Engineering	Space-ground Integrated Intelligent Networking and Hardware Implement
To be announced	Electrical and Electronic Engineering	Non-invasive deep tissue fluorescence imaging
To be announced	Mechanical Engineering	Biomedical Engineering (Cell and Tissue Mechanics
To be announced	Mechanical Engineering	Photonics
532589	Biomedical Sciences	Development of new chemoproteomic probes to uncover new targetable hotspots in liver cancers
532591	Biomedical Sciences	Chromatin biology, epigenetics, structural biology, cell biology
532582	Biomedical Sciences	Cellular plasticity in cancer
532313	Biomedical Sciences	Structural Biology, Virology
532608	Biomedical Sciences	Technologies for high-throughput engineering of CRISPR using artificial intelligence-aided design
532448	Microbiology	Metagenomics and host transcriptomics of lower respiratory tract infection
To be announced	Nursing	Gerontology and neurology (Parkinson’s disease); primary healthcare service research; integrative medicine (whole-person care, digital health, gut microbiome, heart rate complexity, inflammatory biomarkers)
532483	Obstetrics and Gynaecology	Therapeutic Targets of Cancer Immunotherapy
532474	Pathology	Identification of novel biomarkers of treatment response using liquid biopsies in liver cancer
532514	Pharmacology and Pharmacy	Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine
532501	Public Health	Methodologies for Estimating Population Immunity Against Infectious Diseases
532107	Surgery	Organoids & drug development
To be announced	Biological Sciences	Ecology, restoration, insects, biodiversity, nutrient cycling
To be announced	Biological Sciences	Chromosome biology, epigenetics, multidisciplinary -omics stud
To be announced	Biological Sciences	Developmental Neurobiology
532523	Chemistry	Organic Chemistry and Materials Science
To be announced	Chemistry	Chemical biology
532580	Chemistry	Organic Materials
To be announced	Chemistry	Material science, Soft matter physics, polymer chemistry
To be announced	Earth Sciences	Geology, Geochemistry, Tectonics, Earth System Evolution
532331	Geography	Urbanization and Carbon Neutrality
532265	The State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases	Viral-host proteome and antiviral drug development