Dr Henry Tin Hang Hung

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Dr Henry Tin Hang Hung
Fulford Junior Research Fellow Somerville College
Lecturer in Biology Magdalen College & St Hilda's College

Henry Hung is a forest scientist at the University of Oxford. He is a Fulford Fellow at Somerville College and a Lecturer in Biology at Magdalen College and St Hilda's College. His main research concerns how trees adapt in this changing world, in relevance to their conservation and management. He has conducted research on temperate and tropical forest trees in Europe, North America, and Southeast Asia. He serves in many professional organisations including British Ecological Society and Internation Union for Conservation of Nature. He currently co-chairs the BES Ecological Genetics Group.

He also seeks to investigate the relationship between humanity and nature through art. He is a classical singer by training and have curated four solo recitals so far. He is also a novice poet whose poem set Wooden Heart was set to music and presented in the Earth Day Art Model 2020 in the United States.

He completed his bachelor's degree at United College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Swire Scholar, majoring in Biology, and triple-minoring in Environmental Science, German, and Music. He then read his doctorate in Plant Sciences at University College, University of Oxford as a Radcliffe Scholar.

He was named a National Geographic Explorer in 2022 and awarded the Irene Manton Prize in 2024 for his research on critically endangered Asian rosewoods. He was named a Croucher Fellow in 2024 for his research on ancient oaks. He was named a MoCC Scholar in 2024 at Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change.

 

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