Mei-Po Kwan | 关美宝

  Professor Mei-Po Kwan is Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management, Head of Chung Chi College, Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, and an affiliated faculty of the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prof. Kwan is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the U.K. Academy of Social Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Royal Geographical Society (U.K.), the American Association of Geographers (AAG), and the Geographical Society of China. She received many prestigious awards and honors from the AAG, including the Distinguished Scholarship Honors, the Anderson Medal of Honors in Applied Geography, the Wilbanks Prize for Transformational Research in Geography, the Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography, the Melinda Meade Award for Outstanding Contributions to Health and Medical Research, and the Edward L. Ullman Award for Outstanding Contributions to Transportation Geography. Prof. Kwan received two lifetime achievement awards (one from the International Geographical Union and the other from the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences). According to the list of the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, she was ranked No. 5 in the world in the field of geography in 2024. In the 2023 Global Scholar Database's Lifetime Academic Impact List, Kwan ranked first nationally in the field of geography.

  Prof. Kwan has published over 500 journal articles, books, and book chapters. She has received research grants of more than USD 64.5 million and has delivered over 400 keynote addresses and invited lectures in more than 20 countries. Prof. Kwan has made ground-breaking contributions to research on environmental health, human mobility, smart cities, and geographic information science (GIScience). She is a leading researcher in deploying real-time GPS tracking and mobile sensing to collect individual-level data in environmental health research and uses them in building future and sustainable cities.

  关美宝，香港中文大学卓敏地理与资源管理学教授。现任崇基学院院长，太空与地球信息科学研究所所长，以及香港中文大学赛马会公共卫生及基层医疗学院兼任教授。她是古根海姆基金会会士，英国社会科学院院士、美国科学进步协会（AAAS）会士、英国皇家地理学会会士、美国地理学家协会（AAG）会士及中国地理学会会士。关教授曾多次获得美国地理学家协会颁发的重要奖项，包括杰出学术成就奖、地理学专业组James R. Anderson 应用地理学荣誉勋章、Wilbanks地理学变革性研究贡献奖、斯坦利布伦（Stanley Brunn）地理创意奖、健康地理学专业组Melinda S. Meade杰出学术成就奖，以及交通地理专业组Edward L. Ullman Award杰出贡献奖。荣获两项终身成就奖（国际地理联合会和国际华人地理信息科学协会）。根据斯坦福大学发布的“全球前2%顶尖科学家”名单，关教授在2024年地理学领域全球排名第五。在2023年全球学者库的终身学术影响力榜单中，地理学领域位列全国第一。

  关美宝教授已发表超过500篇期刊论文、专著及书籍章节，并获得了超过6450万美元的研究资助。她在20多个国家进行了400多场主题演讲和特邀讲座，在环境健康、人类移动、智慧城市及地理信息科学（GIScience）等领域做出了开创性贡献。她是环境健康研究中利用实时GPS追踪和移动传感技术收集个体数据的领军人物，并将这些技术应用于未来可持续城市的建设中。