Zhongchang Wang#
| Membership Number: | 7114 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | https://inl.int/inl-people/zhongchang-wang/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2141-4803 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 - present Professor (Tenured), Dean of School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, China
- 2024 - 2029 Vice President, Materials Research Society of Chongqing Municipal, China
- 2023 - present Distinguished Professor (Tenured), School of Chemistry, Beihang University, China
- 2023 - present Scientific Associate, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Portugal
- 2019 - 2023 Director, INL-Suzhou Open Innovation Center, Portugal
- 2017 - 2023 Senior Staff Researcher, Professor (Tenured), Research Group Leader, Research Unit Director, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Portugal (Permanent Position)
- 2016 - 2017 Visiting Professor, University College London (UCL), UK
- 2013 - 2017 Associate Professor, Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University, Japan
- 2010 - 2013 Assistant Professor, AIMR, Tohoku University, Japan
- 2008 - 2010 Research Associate, AIMR, Tohoku University, Japan
Fields of Scholarship
- Thin film technology
- Integrated circuits
- Atomic-level manufacturing
- Low-dimensional materials and nanomaterials
- Atomic-resolution structural characterization
- Information storage and sensing devices
- Crystal growth
- Electronic and energy devices
- Semiconductors
- First-principles calculations
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Chongqing Top-class Talents, Chongqing Municipal, China
- 2024 Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), UK
- 2024 RSC Horizon Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK
- 2024 Advanced Materials Award, International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Sweden
- 2023 Elected Member/Fellow of European Academy of Sciences (EurASc)
- 2023 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK
- 2023 “World’s Top 2% Scientists” (Stanford University & Elsevier publishing)
- 2023 Distinguished Research Fellow, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- 2023 IAAM Scientist Medal, International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Sweden
- 2023 Xinjiang “Tianchi” Talents Professor, China
- 2022 Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM), Sweden
- 2021 Chongqing Talents Project Award (Certificate No. CQYC202103248), Chongqing Municipal, China
- 2020 China National Talent Award Winner
- 2020 Outstanding Scientist Award, ScienceFather, India
- 2019 Chongqing “Bayu” Scholar Talents, Chongqing Municipal, China
- 2019 IAAM Award, International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Sweden
- 2019 Seal of Excellence Award, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, EU
- 2019 Conference Academic Committee Member of European Advanced Energy Materials and Technology Congress, and the 1stworkshop on Micro-Mesoscopic Scale Surface and Interface Catalysis
- 2018 Academic Committee Member of International Collaborative Laboratory of 2D Materials for Optoelectronics Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, China
- 2017 Distinguished Young Scholar Award (Overseas), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- 2017 Best Oral Presentation Award, Wuhan Advanced Mater. Society, China
- 2015 Best Academic Photograph Award, Ceramics Society of Japan, Japan
- 2014 Top Six Research Award in Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology Platform Research Center, Japan
- 2013 NEC Tokin Science Technology Award, Tokin Science and Technology Foundation, Japan
- 2012 Young Scientist Silver Award, The International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS)
- 2012 Best Academic Photograph Award, Ceramics Society of Japan, Japan
- 2011 Award for Encouragement of Research, Materials Research Society of Japan (MRS-J), Japan
- 2010 Young Scientist Award, The XIII International Conference on Intergranular and Interphase Boundaries in Materials (iib2010)
