Mo Wang - Biography#
Dr. Mo Wang is the Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Chair at the Warrington College of Business, Department Chair of the Management Department, and Director of Human Resource Research Center at University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology in 2005 from Bowling Green State University, USA. He specializes in research areas of retirement and older worker employment (retirement decision-making and retirement adjustment), expatriate and newcomer adjustment (knowledge acquisition and adaptability), occupational health psychology (temporal-based work-related stress-coping processes), and advanced quantitative methodologies (dynamic modelling and mixture modelling). His research has been reported extensively by the mass media, such as the BBC, Associated Press, Reuters, NPR, NYTimes, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, just to name a few.
Dr. Wang’s research is well recognized and regarded by major funding agencies throughout the world. His research program has been supported by National Institute of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Australian Research Council (ARC), and various other research foundations.
Dr. Wang was an invited speaker for White House Social and Behavioural Sciences Team twice (2015 and 2016) and conducted a Congressional Debriefing on Retirement for U.S. Congress in 2015. He was the Editor of Oxford Handbook of Retirement and an Associate Editor for Journal of Applied Psychology. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Work, Aging and Retirement. He also serves on numerous academic journal’s editorial boards in Management and Psychology.
Dr. Wang is a Fellow of APA, APS, and SIOP. He is the President-elect of Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology (SIOP; 2021-2023). He was the President of Society for Occupational Health Psychology (SOHP; 2014-2015) and the Director for the Science of Organizations Program at National Science Foundation (2014-2016). He was a fellow of The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and The Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement. He has collaborated closely with the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute since 2010.
