Yanwei Wang
Yanwei Wang is an associate professor at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, School of Engineering, Nazarbayev University in Nur-Sultan city, Kazakhstan. He obtained his B.Eng. (2003) in Chemical Engineering from Zhejiang University in China, with one-year (2002.10-2003.8) of exchange study at the University of Fukui, supported by a scholarship from the Association of International Exchange, Japan (AIEJ). Then he went to Denmark and obtained his M.Sc. (2005) in Polymer Engineering and Ph.D. (2009) in Polymer Science from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), supported by scholarships from the Danish government, Chempilots A/S, and DTU. After postdoctoral research work at the Danish Polymer Center (2008.9-2010.12) of DTU-Chemical Engineering and at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (2011.1-2011.8) of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, he worked at Soochow University in Suzhou, China, as associate professor (2011.9-2016.8) in polymer science and engineering, and at the State Key Laboratory of High Performance Civil Engineering Materials, Jiangsu Sobute New Materials Co., Ltd., as senior research engineer (2016.9-2019.2). He returned to academia after 2.5 years of R&D experience in the chemical-admixture industry.
Yanwei Wang’s recent research interests include polymer theory and characterization, concrete admixtures, polymers for Enhanced Oil Recovery, and computational materials science. He has been the PI of several research projects, including those funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and the State Key Laboratory of High-Performance Civil Engineering Materials. He has co-authored >40 technical papers in academic journals, and his work on the polymer physics of concrete Superplasticizers has been awarded the Basic Research Award on the Science and Technology of Building Materials from China Building Material Federation and the Chinese Ceramic Society in 2018.
Yanwei Wang is a member of the IUPAC – Subcommittee on Structure and Properties of Commercial Polymers, a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and he has been vice president of the Suzhou Alumni Association of Zhejiang University since 2017.
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