Dr. Zhong Lin Wang is the Director of the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Director, and Regents' Professor and Hightower Chair at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr.Wang pioneered the nanogenerators field for distributed energy, self-powered sensors and large-scale blue energy. He coined the fields of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics for the third generation semiconductors.
Dr. Wang has received the Global Energy Prize (2023); The Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2019); Diels-Planck lecture award (2019); ENI award in Energy Frontiers (2018); The James C. McGroddy Prize in New Materials from American Physical Society (2014); and MRS Medal from Materials Research Soci. (2011). Dr. Wang was elected as a fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors, foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, member of European Academy of Sciences, member of European Academy of Engineering, foreign member of Korea Academy of Science and Technology; academician of Academia of Sinica, International fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering. Dr. Wang is the founding editor and chief editor of an international journal Nano Energy.