Professor Wong served in the Department of Biology at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) (1986-2013), holding appointments as Principal Lecturer, Reader, and Chair Professor. At HKBU, he was Head of the Department of Biology, Founding Director of the Croucher Institute for Environmental Sciences, and Founding Director of the MSc Programme in Environmental and Public Health Management. He was previously a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1973-1985). Since leaving HKBU, he has been a Research Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Education (now the Education University of Hong Kong) (2013-2016), and an Advisor/Chair Professor of Environmental Science since 2017.
He is a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a Member of the European
Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Chang Jiang Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education, China, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Geochemistry and Health (Springer Nature) for 20 years (2002–2023). He was the Coordinator for Central and North-East Asia of the “Regionally Based Assessment of Persistent Toxic Substances” (2001–2003) and one of the three Panel Members for “Chemicals Management Issues of Developing Countries and Countries with Economies in Transition” (2010–2012), both sponsored by UNEP/GEF. His research areas include environmental toxicology, ecological restoration, and resource reuse. Under Environmental Sciences, he is ranked 6th–8th in career-long rankings in Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists (2020–2026).
