Name: Yong Wang

Affiliation:   Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

                        MSIN: K8-93, 902 Battelle Blvd, Richland,  WA 99352, USA

              yongwang@pnl.gov

Title:                  Laboratory Fellow, Team Leader of   Catalysis and Reaction Engineering

Yong Wang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in ChE from Chengdu University of Science and Technology (now Sichuan University) in 1984 and 1987, and his M.S. and PhD degrees in ChE from Washington State University in 1992, and 1993. He joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in 1994 as a postdoc fellow. He became a research engineer in 1996, a senior research engineer in 1997, a chief scientist in 2000, and a laboratory fellow (highest scientific rank in national labs) in 2005. He currently manages Catalysis & Reaction Engineering team, consisting of 23 technical staffs and >10 postdocs. His responsibilities include strategic planning, business development, and staff development for the team.

His research interest is in the development of novel catalytic materials and innovative reaction engineering such as microchannel reactors, structured monolith reactors and membrane reactors for hydrocarbon and biomass conversions to fuels/chemicals; fundamental studies of structural and functional relationship of early transition metal oxide and bimetallic catalysts; rapid discovery of catalysts using combinatorial tools; novel and durable cathode materials for PEM fuel cell applications. His discoveries in microchannel reaction technology led to the spin-off of Velocys, a wholly owned subsidiary of Battelle in the commercialization of microchannel technology.

Dr. Wang was named as the 2006 Asian American Engineer of the Year by Chinese Institute of Engineers.  He has received two R&D100 awards (1997 and 1999) and a Presidential Green Chemistry Award in 1999. He was twice named PNNL Inventor of the Year in 2004 and 2006. He was honored as a Battelle Distinguished Inventor in 2004. He is also a first-time recipient of PNNL Laboratory Director’s Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement in 2005. He was selected by US National Academy of Engineering as one of the top 86 (age 35 to 45) frontier engineer in 2004.  He is an Adjunct Professor in ChE at Washington State University, a Guest Professor in ChE at Tianjin University (China), an Guest Professor in ChE at Sichuan University, and a Guest Professor in ChE at Dalian University of Technology.  He currently serves editorial board of Catalysis Today and Journal of Nanomaterials.  He also serves as the Program Committee Chair of ACS (American Chemical Society) Petroleum Division (2006-2008).  He has organized numerous international and national conferences.