Professor Andy Hor

Deputy Chief Executive (Research)
A*STAR

Professor Andy Hor is the Deputy Chief Executive (Research) of A*STAR. He oversees the scientific vision and research strategy of A*STAR, supports investigator-led research, develops a framework to foster quality, excellence and impact, as well as review policy and measures to safeguard research ethics, integrity, compliance and responsible conduct. He oversees the central research initiatives of the Agency, and is accordingly in charge of research talent development, strategic research initiatives, outputs, outcomes and research data, as well as local and international research partnership.

Prior to this, Professor Hor was the Vice President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Chair Professor of Metallic Chemistry & Materials in the University of Hong Kong (HKU) from 2015 to early 2020, and Professor of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore (NUS) from 1984 to 2015. In NUS, he was Head of Chemistry, Vice Dean (Academic) of Science and Fellow of the NUS Teaching Academy. He is Adjunct Professor of NUS, NTU (Singapore) and Concurrent Professor of Fudan University (Shanghai, China).

Professor Hor graduated from Imperial College (B.Sc.(Hon)) and University of Oxford (D.Phil.), and did postdoctoral work in Yale University before he joined NUS. He was a Humboldt Fellow (Munich and Muenster), Commonwealth Fellow (Liverpool) and Anthony Mason Fellow (UNSW). He is the Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science and European Academy of Sciences.

Among his accolades are the NSTB Young Scientist Award, ASEAN Achievement Award, the first SNIC Distinguished Chemistry Service Award, and numerous fellowship such as Humboldt, Commonwealth and ASAIHL. For his achievements and contributions, he was conferred D.Sc. by the University of London, and numerous academy fellowships, including the European Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of Chemistry, Singapore National Academy of Science, Singapore National Institute of Chemistry and NUS Teaching Academy, among others. His services included being the President of the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies, President of the Singapore National Institute of Chemistry (SNIC), President of Jury of L’Oréal for Women in Science, Founding Chair of the Young Scientist Award, Chair of the Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances and Toxic Wastes of the National Environment Agency, and Chair of numerous international conferences. He is on the advisory boards of a number of international journals and conferences, and has served on many grant and award review panels in Australia, Japan and Hong Kong as well as NRF and A*STAR, among others.

In research, he specializes in organometallic materials and heterometallic catalysis and has published over 430 international papers with more than 1,000 annual citations in recent years, and filed patents in areas like nanostructures and battery materials. He has delivered numerous plenary, keynote and invited lectures in major conferences and seminars, and trained over 100 doctorate and Master’s students apart from many more research students in NUS and schools in Singapore. He is Concurrent Professor of Fudan University.