Dr. Lau started out in the Information Engineering program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. During his undergraduate years, he took courses from different departments and discovered his true interest in a quite different field philosophy. Due to this intense interest, he finally decided to further his education in the Department of Philosophy after completing his Bachelor's Degree in Engineering. He chose the German philosopher Kant as the topic for his Master's Thesis, which, later on, led him to pursue a PhD in Germany. Thanks to a DAAD scholarship, he was able to study at the University of Heidelberg, the oldest university in Germany. Upon completion of his doctoral thesis on Hegel, he was awarded a research fellowship by the Humboldt Foundation and taught at the Institute of Philosophy in Darmstadt. He returned to CUHK in 2004 to work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy.Both at work and at leisure, he is almost always on the computer. He often complains about spending too much time on the internet. Back to the real world, he enjoys traveling, all kinds of ball games and various outdoor activities; he is also a paraglider pilot.
