Andrey L. Rogach is a Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor in Photonics Materials at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Founding Director of the Centre for Functional Photonics (CFP) at City University of Hong Kong. He received his Diploma in Chemistry (1991, with honors) and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (1995) from Belarusian State University in Minsk, where he studied the formation and properties of silver nanoparticles in different media. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher and then as a staff scientist at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the University of Hamburg, Germany, from 1995 to 2002. From 2002 to 2009, he held a tenured position as a lead staff scientist at the Department of Physics and Centre for NanoScience of the University of Munich, Germany, where he completed his habilitation in Experimental Physics on light emission and harvesting with semiconductor nanocrystals. He joined City University of Hong Kong as a Full Professor in 2009 and became Chair Professor in 2012.

He has authored over 650 journal publications, two edited books, eight book contributions and two patents. His publications have received over 87,000 citations, with an h-index of 155 in Google Scholar. He has repeatedly been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics and was ranked 51st worldwide among the “100 Top Materials Scientists of the Past Decade” by Thomson Reuters. He is a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, USA. He served as an Associate Editor of ACS Nano from 2011 to 2023.