{"id":140095,"date":"2025-11-09T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140095"},"modified":"2025-11-09T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T02:00:09","slug":"top-astrophysicist-moves-to-hong-kong-to-head-new-hku-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140095","title":{"rendered":"Top astrophysicist moves to Hong Kong to head new HKU institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWorld-renowned astrophysicist Zhang Bing has joined the University of Hong Kong as a chair professor after nearly three decades in the United States.<br \/>\nZhang left the University of Nevada, Las Vegas \u2013 where he was a distinguished professor of physics and astronomy \u2013 to become the founding director of the newly established Hong Kong Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (HKIAA) at HKU.<br \/>\nHe said his role in Hong Kong was full-time, but he would continue supervising his PhD students in the US until&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3331900\/top-astrophysicist-moves-hong-kong-head-new-hku-institute?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWorld-renowned astrophysicist Zhang Bing has joined the University of Hong Kong as a chair professor after nearly three decades in the United States. Zhang&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140095"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}