Wang Rong

Dr Rong Wang is Full Professor and President’s Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She also holds the position of Executive Director, Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute (NEWRI), and Director, Singapore Membrane Technology Centre (SMTC) at NEWRI, NTU. She is the founding President of Membrane Society in Singapore (MEMSIS). She is a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore. Dr Wang received her Bachelor degree from Zhejiang University, China and PhD degree from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She worked at the Institute of Process Engineering, CAS prior to joining the Institute of Environmental Science & Engineering, Singapore in 1999. She joined NTU in 2008 as Associate Professor, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2014. She served as the Chair of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at NTU from 2014 to 2020. She co-founded the SMTC at NTU and has led the centre for the last 15 years. Dr Wang has over 30 years of experience in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Water and Energy related research and innovation. She specializes in novel membrane development for water and wastewater treatment, liquid purification and gas separation, and in the development of novel hybrid membrane systems and process simulation. Since joining NTU in 2008, Prof. Wang has secured over $40 million in external competitive grants as a Principal Investigator (PI) from both the government and private sectors for her research work in novel membrane development. Dr Wang has over 360 SCI tracked journal publications (cited times: >26,200, h-index: 89 @Web of Science; cited times: >35,900, h-index: 103 @ Google Scholar as April 2024), and is recognized in the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Stanford University since 2021. She is the inventor of 30 patents and technical disclosures for novel membrane fabrication. Her inventions led to the setup of 3 membrane-based spin-off companies in Singapore, including Aquaporin Asia, Aromatec Pte Ltd and H2MO Technology Pte Ltd. Dr Wang is an Editor (and eventually taking over the helm as an Editor-in-Chief since Jan 2020) of the Journal of Membrane Science since 2014, a premier international membranes journal. She was the President of Aseanian Membrane Society (AMS) from 2022-2023. Dr Wang was featured among the top 25 leading water researchers globally by Lux Research in 2013, and was the winner of Singapore’s Minister for National Development R&D Award in 2013. She received a prestigious “Alternative Water Prize” from Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) from Saudi Arabia in 2016, and was awarded Nanyang Research Award in 2018. She was listed in the Singapore 100 Women in Tech (SG100WIT) 2021, and is the winner of Singapore’s National Day Award - Public Administration Medal (Silver) 2022. She has also been awarded the prestigious “President’s Technology Award” 2022, which is the highest honor bestowed on exceptional research scientists and engineers in Singapore for their excellent achievements in science and technology.