Biography
Henry Hung joined St Hilda’s in October 2023 as a Stipendiary Lecturer in Biology.
His main research concerns how trees adapt in this changing world, in relevance to their conservation and management. He started his research in tropical forests in Southeast Asia. He is now shifting his focus to temperate forests in Europe and North America. He also conducts research locally in Wytham and Blenheim in Oxford.
His main teaching interests are ecology and evolution. His teaching at Oxford is mostly in the MBiol programme and the MPLS Doctoral Training Centre, and includes subjects such as plant evolution, population genetics, ecophysiology, quantitative methods, bioinformatics, and conservation. He also supervises MBiol fourth-year projects.
He currently co-chairs the Ecological Genetics Group and serve in the Events Committee of the British Ecological Society. He was named a National Geographic Explorer in 2022 and awarded the Irene Manton Prize in 2024 for his research on critically endangered rosewood trees. He was named a Croucher Fellow in 2024 for his research in ancient oaks. He was named a MoCC Scholar in 2024 for the Hong Kong Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change, the world's first climate change museum. He was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe in 2025 for his commitment to climate actions.
He completed his bachelor's degree at United College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Swire Scholar, majoring in Biology, triple-minoring in Environmental Science, German, and Music. He then read his doctorate at University College, University of Oxford as a Radcliffe Scholar. He remained at Oxford and became a Lecturer in Biology at Magdalen College and a Fulford Fellow in Biology at Somerville College.
His recent research on rosewoods is featured in the University News: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/features/race-save-world-s-most-trafficked-wild-species
For a complete list of publications, please see https://www.hung.bio/publications
Positions
- Lecturer in Biology
Subjects
- Biology
