Founded in 1911, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is committed to the highest international standards of excellence in teaching and research, and has been at the international forefront of academic scholarship for many years. The University has a comprehensive range of study programmes and research disciplines spread across 10 faculties and over 140 academic departments and institutes/centres. There are around 30,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students who are recruited globally, and more than 4,000 members of academic and academic-related staff coming from multi-cultural backgrounds, many of whom are internationally renowned. 

About the HKU Global Professoriate Recruitment Campaign
HKU is pleased to invite outstanding scholars to contribute to our thriving research agenda as well as to Hong Kong’s leading position in the region and beyond. 

We will recruit 100 outstanding academics in emerging fields with potential for scientific and scholarly breakthroughs—above and beyond our existing professoriate recruitment programme—to join HKU as assistant, associate, or full professors, on tenure-track or with direct tenure. 

This is an open-discipline call but will also cluster recruit ten or more academics in Data Science and/or Big-Data related fields.

As a high-performing university with internationally recognised strong global connections, HKU offers a stimulating and supportive intellectual environment as well as a highly competitive remuneration and benefits package.

Application Criteria
 - Substantial experience in one or more world-renowned higher education institutions and/or research organizations outside Hong Kong;
 - Outstanding record of achievement; 
 - Demonstrable scholarship addressing grand challenges and/or in exciting emerging fields.