Tao Wang, Professor

Mailing address: ZS911, block Z, CEE, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

E-mail: cetwang@polyu.edu.hk

Homepage: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/cee/~cetwang/index.html

Introduction

Professor Wang Tao was born in 1960 and is the Chair Professor of Atmospheric Environment at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the adjunct professor at Environmental Research Institute of Shandong University. He received his B.Sc. in chemistry from the Department of chemistry of Nankai University in 1985, and received his Ph.D. in atmospheric chemistry from the Department of earth and Atmospheric Sciences of Georgia Institute of technology in 1992. From 1992 to 1995, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences of University of Michigan. Since 1995, he has successively served as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor and Chair Professor of Atmospheric Environment at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Professor Wang Tao is one of the most active Chinese atmospheric chemists in the world. His research focus include trend, formation and long-distance transport mechanism of tropospheric ozone, sources and heterogeneous chemistry of nitrogen compounds (nitrous acid and dinitrogen pentoxide) and their impacts on the atmospheric oxidative capacity, instrument and model development. His research group have published more than 200 papers in the top journals of earth and atmospheric science such as Atmos. Chem Phys., Environ. Sci. Tech., J. of Geophys. Res., and Atmos. Environ. The research results have been cited more than 6200 times, and the h-index is 57.

Professor Wang Tao is currently a Distinguished Researcher of The Chinese Academy of Sciences and has been carrying out research jointly with universities in mainland China such as Peking University, Nankai University, Shandong University, Nanjing University, Sun Yat-sen University and Fudan University.

EDUCATION

1992 Ph.D. (Atmospheric Chemistry), Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

1985-86 Graduate course study (Environmental Chemistry), Peking University, China, 1985

1985 B.Sc. (Chemistry), Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Employment

2013-present, Chair Professor of Atmospheric Environment, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2005-2013, Professor, Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2001-2005, Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

1995 -2001, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

1992-1995, Research Fellow, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2004-present, Adjunct Professor, Environmental Research Institute of Shandong University

Selected Professional Services

Editorial:

Associate editor of Journal of Geophysical Research

Guest editor for special issues of Atmospheric Chemistry Physics

Guest editor for a special issue of Atmospheric Environment

Guest editor for a special issue of Science of the Total Environment

Editorial board member of Atmospheric Environment

Editorial board member of Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry

Editorial board member of Atmosphere

Editorial board member of Air Quality

Editorial board member of Atmosphere and Health

Editorial board member of Research of Environmental Sciences

Editorial board member of Environmental Chemistry

Committees:

2018, Assessment Panel on Atmospheric Science of the National Natural Science Foundation of China

2015- , Member of the Innovation Center for Excellence in Regional Atmospheric Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

2015- , Vice Chair of the Commission on Atmospheric Environment of China Environmental Association

2014- , Vice Chair of the Commission on Atmospheric Composition of China Meteorological Association

2014- , Member of the Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry of China Meteorological Administration

2014- , Member of Shanghai Key Laboratory for Pollution Control

2013-2017, Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project (IGAC)

2011-2012, Vice Chair of IGAC China Working Group

2010- , Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment of China

2006- , Guest Professor of Fudan University

2005- , Chief Scientist of China Basic Research Program (973 program) on acid rain

2005- , Chairman of Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA) Hong Kong

2004- , Editorial board member of Research of Environmental Sciences

2004- , Distinguished Researcher of The Chinese Academy of Sciences

2004- , Guest Scientist of Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences

2003- , Senior Research Fellow for China's Environment of Harvard University Center for the Environment

2003- , Chief Scientist for CO contrast test of Atmospheric Brown Clouds Project

2002- , Member of Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA) Hong Kong

2000- , Member of Asian/North Pacific Regional Experiment Project (APARE)

1999-2001, Project member of Aerosol Characterization Experiment Project-Asian Pacific (ACE-Asia)

1991- , Member of American Geophysical Union

Honors

Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education of China (second class, 2009),

Science and Technology Award of Ministry of Environmental Protection of China (2nd class, 2010);

2002, PolyU President’s Awards for Outstanding Performance /Achievement in Research and Scholarly Activities

Research Interest

Atmospheric chemistry, air quality management, transboundary transport of air pollutants, instrument and model development, field study and data analysis.

Training of Graduate Students

Gao Jian, PhD, Chinese Academy of Environmental Sciences (joint training at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2003-2005 & 2007-2008)

Xue Likun, PhD, Shandong University (joint training at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2007-2008 & 2009-2011)

Nie Wei, PhD, Nanjing University (joint training at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2009-2011)

Wang Xinfeng, PhD, Shandong University (joint training at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2010-2011)

Zhou Shengzhen, PhD, Sun Yat-sen University (joint training at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2011-2012 & 2013-2014)

Xue Zheng, PhD, Nanjing University (joint training at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2011-2012 & 2013-2014)

Yao Lan, PhD, Fudan University (joint training at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2015-2016)

Yang Xue, PhD, Shandong Jianzhu University (joint training at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2017-2018)

Wang Hao, MSc

Gu Rongrong, PhD student (joint training at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2018-2019)

Yu Chuan, PhD student (joint training at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2017-2019)

Ongoing Research Projects

Hong Kong Research Grants Council’s Theme-based Research project on Photochemical Air Pollution in Highly Urbanized Subtropical Regions: from Micro Environments to Urban-Terrestrial-Oceanic Interactions

The French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR) / RGC Joint Research Scheme on Impact of Air-Sea Exchanges on Air Quality in Coastal Megacities

Hong Kong Research Grants Council’s Collaborative Research Fund Scheme on Heterogeneous Chemistry of Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen Oxides: An Integrative Programme for Cutting-Edge Science

National Nature Science Foundation of China Scheme on Heterogeneous chemistry of reactive nitrogen oxides and its impacts on atmospheric oxidative capacity and regional air pollution over China

Publications

Approx. 200 peer-reviewed papers, H-index=57.

Detailed information: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/cee/~cetwang/index.html