Affiliation: Research Institute for Future Food, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong

Dr Fang is an Assistant Professor in the Research Institute for Future Food, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and a Principal Investigator in the State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong. He received a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science at The University of Plymouth, UK, an MPhil in Marine Toxicology at City University of Hong Kong, and a PhD in Coral Reef Ecophysiology at The University of Queensland, Australia. Dr Fang is currently working on artificial breeding and aquaculture of marine invertebrates for seafood provision and ecological restoration purposes. Examples of target species include the pearl oyster Pinctada fucata, the staghorn coral Acropora pruinosa and the tri-spine horseshoe crab Tachypleus tridentatus. His other research areas cover the marine ecological impacts and seafood sustainability under human-induced stress such as microplastics, climate change and ocean acidification, and the use of 3D printing technology in making artificial reefs and in other ecological context.