Dr Faith, Ka Shun Chan specialised in sustainable flood risk management, climate adaptations and urban resilience in Asian coastal megacities. He is currently funded by the Chinese National Research Council (NSFC) as a principal investigator on microplastics and its impacts on urban rivers, he is also involved in two international research projects as a researcher in the Blue-Green Cities Consortium (funded by ESPRC and British Academy from the UK research council) and co-investigating in the flood risk and commercial properties (funded by RICS) project. He is also a principal investigator on three municipal-funded projects to investigate the surface water quality, typhoon-enhanced flood risk, and the development of a “Sponge City” study in Ningbo, the total funding he awarded has been over 2 million RMB. Currently, he is working with the research consortium in the Greater Bay Area with Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong provincial scholars and governmental officials on the mitigation of typhoon-enhanced flood risk and improving climate resilience funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) from 2019-2023. Faith is the editing Panel Committee lead author in the “4th National Climate Change Assessment Report of the People’s Republic of China – the chapter of Hong Kong, Macao and Pearl River Delta Region”, contributing towards the urban floods and typhoon hazards section. He has published more than 70 publications in top-tier international peer-reviewed journals related to his research areas such as Nature, Nature Review of Earth and Environment, Nature Ecology and Evolution, One Earth, Environmental Science and Policy, Journal of Hydrology and Land Use Policy, etc., book chapters and magazines.
