Zhong Lin Wang 王中林 Election Year 2018 School of Materials Science and Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta GA 30332-0245, U.S.A. Tel: 1-404-894-8008
Current Positions
Regents’ Professor, Hightower Chair, Georgia Institute of Technology
Director, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Education
B.S. in Applied Physics, Xidian University, Xian, China (1982)
Ph.D. in Physics, Arizona State University (1987)
Professional Experience
Georgia Institute of Tech., School of Materials Science and Engineering:
The Hightower Chair in Materials Science and Engineering (2010-present), Engineering Distinguished Professor (2006-2010), Regents’ Professor (2004-present), Full Professor (1999-2004), Associate Professor (1995-1999)
Founding director and Director, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011-present)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (1993-1995)
Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee (1989-1993)
Research Fellow, University of Cambridge-England, Cavendish Laboratory (1988-1989)
Visiting Lecturer, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Materials Science & Eng. (1987-1988)
Specialties
Materials Science and Nanotechnology
Awards and Honors
ENI award in Energy Frontiers (2018)
American Chemical Soc. Publication most prolific author
Global Nanoenergy Prize, The NANOSMAT Society, UK (2017)
潘文淵文教基金會研究傑出獎(2017)
European Advanced Materials Laureate, Sweden (2016)
Distinguished Scientist Award, Southeastern Universities Research Association, US (2016)
Thomas Router Citation Laureate in Physics (2015)
Distinguished Professor Award, Georgia Tech (2014)
NANOSMAT prize, United Kingdom (2014)
China International Science and Technology Collaboration Award, China (2014)
The James C. McGroddy Prize in New Materials from American Physical Society (2014)
ACS Nano Lectureship (2013)
Edward Orton Memorial Lecture Award, American Ceramic Society (2012)
MRS Medal from Materials Research Soci. (2011)
Purdy award, American Ceramic Society (2009)
S.T. Li Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Science and Technology (2001)
Burton Medal, Microscopy Soc. of America (1999)
International Fellow, the Canadian Academy of Engineering (2019)
Foreign member, the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), 2019. The Diels-Planck lecture award, Kiel University (2019)
Academician of Academia Sinica (2018)
Foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2009)
Member of European Academy of Sciences (2002)
Fellow of American Physical Society (2005)
Fellow of AAAS (2006)
Fellow of Materials Research Society (2008)
Fellow of Microscopy Society of America (2010)
Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (2002)
Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, and fellow of World Technology Network (2014)