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Professor Lianzhou Wang is the Chair Professor of Energy Materials and Hong Kong Global STEM Professor of the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is also the Research Director of the JC STEM Lab for Renewable Energy Materials. Professor Wang is a world-leading scientist in materials science for renewable energy conversion and storage application. His seminal achievements include breakthroughs in perovskite quantum dots and eco-friendly tin-based perovskite solar cells with certified world record efficiencies, layered battery electrode materials for scalable production, and new catalysts for solar hydrogen and valuable chemical production. 

Before joining PolyU in 2025, Professor Wang was a prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Laureate Fellow of the School of Chemical Engineering, Director of the long-standing and renowned Nanomaterials Centre (2012-25), and Senior Group Leader of the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, at The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia.  Over the years, he has attracted a large number of competitive research grants from ARC, Cooperative Research Centres and The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, as well as strategic research investment from industry, totalling more than AU$66 million (~HK$330 million). Since 2006, Professor Wang has mentored more than 130 early career researchers and postgraduate students, with 59 PhD students to successful PhD graduations. 

Prof. Wang has contributed to three edited books, 14 edited book chapters, more than 650 journal publications (including in top ranking journals such as Science, Nature Energy, Nature Nanotech and Nature Rev. Mater.), filed 20 patents and delivered over 160 plenary/keynote/invited presentations. His publications have received more than 66,000 citations with a H-index of 135 (Google Scholar). Professor Wang serves as Editor/Associate Editor/Editorial Board member of more than 10 international journals including Advanced Materials, EcoEnergy (Wiley Publishing group) and National Science Review (Oxford Academic). He has been named on the lists of the Clarivate’ Highly Cited Researchers (Top 0.1% researcher in the world) and Stanford Top 2% Researchers numerous times.

Prof. Wang has won a number of prestigious Fellowships/awards including the Science and Technology Agency (STA) Fellowship of Japan 1999, ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship 2006, University of Queensland (UQ) Research Excellence Award 2008, Scopus Young Researcher Award 2011, ARC Future Fellowship 2012, UQ Research Supervision Award 2018, ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship 2019, Research Excellence Award in Chemical Engineering 2019 and ARC Industry Laureate Fellowship 2024.

Prof. Wang is an elected Fellow of multiple prestigious Academies, including the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering, Academia Europaea, Asia Pacific Academy of Materials and Royal Society of Chemistry. With regard to professional services, he has played important roles in organising more than 30 international conferences/symposia, and has served as the Chair of the National Committee for Materials Science and Engineering of the Australian Academy of Sciences, President of the Australian Materials Research Society (2022-2025), and as a panel member of the College of Experts of the Australian Research Council (2016-18, 2024-date).