Adrian Ka-Wai Chung is a Herchel Smith Fellow at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. An astrophysicist, his research focuses on analysing gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time that can be produced by the collisions of black holes and neutron stars, to probe fundamental physics, including the limits of Einstein’s general relativity, the nature of dark matter, and the expansion rate of the Universe.
Originally from Hong Kong, Adrian earned his BSc and MPhil in Physics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He completed his PhD in Physics at King’s College London in 2022, and subsequently held a postdoctoral position at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2022 to 2025 before joining Cambridge and St John’s.
