Prof. Wang Jiacheng from the School of Materials Science and Engineering /Advanced Research Institute of Taizhou University was recently elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2024. The Royal Society of Chemistry, founded in 1841, is the oldest chemical academic organization in the world and one of the most influential international authoritative academic institutions. Based on expert recommendations, the society selects scientists from the UK and internationally who have made outstanding achievements in chemical science research and made significant contributions to promoting the development of chemical science as its Fellows every year.

Prof. Wang obtained his Doctor of Engineering degree from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is currently the director of the Provincial Key Laboratory of Green Energy and New Materials on Islands, a supervisor of master’s and doctorate candidates, a disciplinary leading talent, a PI of the electrochemical team, and an adjunct professor at Dalian University of Technology. Prof. Wang has been engaged in research on energy electrocatalytic materials and high-performance scintillation materials and devices. He has been selected in the Outstanding Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2014), and successively won the titles of Shanghai Excellent Young Academic Leader (2020), German Humboldt Scholar (2011), Japanese JSPS Foreigner Special Researcher (2010), and EU Marie Curie Researcher (2012). He has been engaged in scientific research at the University of Tokyo (Collaborative Supervisor: Prof. Makoto Onaka) in Japan, Dresden University of Technology (Collaborative Supervisor: Prof. Stefan Kaskel) in Germany, and Cardiff University (Collaborative Supervisor: Prof. Graham J. Hutchings) in the UK for nearly 6 years.

Prof. Wang has published more than 220 papers in domestic and international journals such as Prog. Mater. Sci., Nature Mater., Nature Catal., Nature Commun., Coord. Chem. Rev., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Energy Environ. Sci., etc. His articles have been cited more than 12,000 times, with the highest single citation exceeding 2,400 times (Google Scholar). He was selected into the List of the World’s Top 2% Scientists from 2022 to 2023 (released by Stanford University, USA). He has presided over more than 10 scientific research projects, including the Youth Program, General Program, Major Research plan and International Cooperation Research & Exchange Programs of the Natural Science Foundation of China, and research programs of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission. He has served as a project review expert for the National Science and Technology Awards Plan, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Talent Plan of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, an editorial board member of the Journal of Inorganic Materials, a member of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Silicate Society, a member of the Chinese Materials Research Society, and a member of the Ceramic Professional Committee of the Chinese Crystallographic Society.