After completing his undergraduate degree at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Chan moved to the University of Manchester for a PhD in physics. This was followed by post-doctoral research in the Hong Kong Baptist University, Trinity College Dublin, and then the University of Nottingham. Chan has published a variety of scientific articles in the fields of statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, most notably his work on a template-based method of sequential deposition for generating a wide range of densest columnar packings of spheres. Close