Prof Andy Hor

Deputy Chief Executive (Research)
A*STAR

Professor Andy Hor is the Deputy Chief Executive (Research) of the Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR) in Singapore. He oversees the scientific vision and strategy of A*STAR, and develops a framework to ensure quality, excellence and impact, as well as review policy and measures to safeguard research ethics, integrity, compliance and responsible conduct. He manages strategic research initiatives, outputs, outcomes and research data, as well as local and international research partnership. He 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) in the period 1984 to 2015. He is Adjunct Professor of NUS and Concurrent Professor of Fudan University (Shanghai, China).

Presentation Title

Nurturing a Culture of Responsible and Reproducible Research in the Quest for Excellence and Impact

A robust research culture is one that thrives on new ideas, accompanied by novel concepts or methodology and experimental data that are reproducible and optimised.

All responsible researchers are guided by ethical guidelines as laid in their institutional, professional, research and academic communities.

The speaker will use this forum to explain some of the best practices, as well as how and why they are integral to research excellence and impact.

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