Zuankai WANG

• Founding Member, The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences
• Associate Vice President (Research and Innovation), Dean of Graduate School, Kuok Group Professor in Nature-Inspired Engineering, and Chair Professor of Nature-Inspired Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Prof. Zuankai Wang is currently the Associate Vice President (Research and Innovation), Dean of Graduate School, Kuok Group Professor in Nature-Inspired Engineering, Chair Professor of Nature-Inspired Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his B.S. degree from Jilin University, M.S. degree from Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Ph. D. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After one-year postdoc training at Columbia University, he joined the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) in 2009 and became a Chair Professor in 2021. Professor Wang is a member of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering and Fellow of International Society of Bionic Engineering (ISBE) and Royal Society of Chemistry. He has received many awards including 2025 Nano Energy Award, 2025 Micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena Prominent Research Award, 2024 Nukiyama Memorial Award (the highest award conferred by the Heat Transfer Society of Japan), Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2023 (Engineering and Technology), Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize, the RGC Senior Research Fellow, Green Tech Award, Xplorer Prize.