Ka Hou CHU received his A.B. degree in Biological Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, in 1976, and his Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography, USA, in 1984. He was the founding director of the School of Life Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of the school, an Honorary Fellow of the New Asia College of the university, and a Visiting Scholar of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include molecular marine biology and biotechnology and the biology of crustaceans.