JIN Wanqin

Distinguished Professor
Dr. Wanqin Jin is a professor of Chemical Engineering at Nanjing Tech University, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, Director of the State Key laboratory of Materials-oriented Chemical Engineering, and the Chief-scientist of the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) and Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He received his Ph.D. from Nanjing Tech University in 1999 and joined in the Institute of Materials Research & Engineering of Singapore as a research associate in 2001. He received the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (2001-2013) and was invited as visiting professors at Arizona State University (2007) and Hiroshima University (2011, JSPS invitation fellowship).

His currently research focuses on the development of membrane materials and processes. He has published over 300 refereed journal publications including Nature, Nat. Rev. Mater., Nat. Comm., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem., J. Am. Chem. Soc., AIChE J., J. Membr. Sci., Chem. Eng. Sci. with 23,000+ citations; written 3 monographs, contributed 6 book chapters and hold 64 authorized patents. He was co-chair of the 10th International Congress on Membrane and membrane Processes (ICOM2014), and he is now an editor of Journal of Membrane Science and a council member of Aseanian Membrane Society (AMS). His research has been awarded the Underwood Medal (2019) by the IChemE (UK) and the “Humboldt Research Award” (2021) by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for his leading research in the field of separation.