Education and Training

• STANFORD UNIVERSITY, STANFORD, CA, USA
  Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Applied Physics, 2011-2016

• UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA, HEFEI, ANHUI, PRC
  Bachelor of Science in Physics, 2007-2011

Professional Appointments

• TONGJI UNIVERSITY, SHANGHAI, CHINA
  Professor, 2026/09 – now

• RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON, USA
  Professor, 2026/07 – 2026/09
  Associate Professor, 2023/07 – 2026/06
  Dean Fellow for Sustainability, George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing, 2025/01 – 2026/09
  William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair Assistant Professor, 2019/01 – 2023/06
  The Wang Group website: http://wang.rice.edu

• NANO LETTERS JOURNAL, AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, USA
  Associate Editor, 2023 – now
  Nano Letters Website: https://pubs.acs.org/journal/nalefd

• SOLIDEC INC., HOUSTON, TX
  Co-founder, 2024 – now
  Solidec Website: http://solidec.com

• HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MA
  Rowland Fellow, 2016-2018

Honors and Awards

• Mar. 2026    Provost's Award for Outstanding Early-Career Achievement

• Aug. 2025    The American Chemical Society Marks-Ipatieff Award in Catalysis

• 2018-2025    Highly Cited Researchers

• Dec. 2024    The Welch Foundation Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research

• Oct. 2024    Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering Rising Star Award

• Oct. 2023    AIChE 35 Under 35 Award

• May. 2023    AIChE Young Investigator Award for Innovations in Green Process Engineering

• May. 2022    2022 Hershel M. Rich Invention Award

• Oct. 2021    2021 Young Investigator Excellence Award, Canadian Light Source

• Aug. 2021    2021 AICHE NSEF Young Investigator Award

• Feb. 2021    2021 Sloan Research Fellow

• Dec. 2020    Materials Today Rising Star Award

• Oct. 2020    2020 Packard Fellow

• Apr. 2020    Roy E. Campbel Faculty Award

• Apr. 2020    Rice School of Engineering Young Faculty Research Award

• Dec. 2019    MIT Technology Review 35 Under 35 China

• Aug. 2019    CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar

• Feb. 2019    Forbes 30 under 30 Class of 2019

• Oct. 2015    Fall 2015 MRS Graduate Student Award

• Sep. 2015    Rowland Fellow, The Rowland Institute at Harvard

• Oct. 2014    Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship, Stanford

Selected Publications

† Contributed equally to this work; * Corresponding authors
Total citations: 46,628; h-index: 81

• Acid-humidified CO2 gas input for stable electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction, S. Hao^, A. Elgazzar^, S.K. Zhang, T.U. Wi, F.Y. Chen, Y. Feng, P. Zhu, H. Wang*, Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.adr3834 (2025).

• Continuous carbon capture in an electrochemical solid-electrolyte reactor, P. Zhu, Z.-Y. Wu, A. Elgazzar, C. Dong, T.-U. Wi, F.-Y. Chen, Y. Xia, Y. Feng, M. Shakouri, J. Y. Kim, Z. Fang, T. A. Hatton, and H. Wang*, Nature 618, 959–966 (2023).

• Direct Electrosynthesis of Pure Aqueous H₂O₂ Solutions Up to 20% by Weight Using a Solid Electrolyte, C. Xia , Y. Xia , P. Zhu, L. Fan, and H. Wang*, Science 366, 226 (2019).

• Continuous production of pure liquid fuel solutions via electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction using solid-electrolyte devices, C. Xia, P. Zhu, Q. Jiang, Y. Pan, W. Liang, E. Stavitski, H.N. Alshareef, and H. Wang*, Nature Energy 4, 776 (2019).

• Metal ion Cycling of Cu Foil for Selective C-C coupling in Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction, K. Jiang , R.B. Sandberg , A.J. Akey, X. Liu, D.C. Bell, J.K. Nørskov, K. Chan*, and H. Wang*, Nature Catalysis 1, 111 (2018).

Scientific Leadership

• Associate Editor of Nano Letters (2023 – now).

• Dean Fellow for Sustainability, oversees the school’s efforts in energy and sustainability, advanced materials, and resilient and adaptive communities (2025 - 2026).

• Editorial Board of Communications Materials (2022 – now).

• Leading PI of the Electrochemistry Exploration Academy summer outreach program (2021 – 2025).

• Leading organizer of Materials Research Society 2021 and 2023 Fall symposiums (2021 – 2023).

• University-level Lab Safety Committee; Department-level Graduate Study Committee, Graduate Admission Committee, Faculty Search Committee, Department Seminar Committee (2018 – 2026).

• External Thesis Committees for PhD students at Northwestern University, Yale University, University of Alberta, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2023 – now).

• Trained/graduated a total 64 undergraduates/graduates/postdocs since the establishment of the Wang Group (2016 – now).