Yin Wang , Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Dr. Yin Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. He received his B.S. in Environmental Sciences at the Peking University in 2008, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering at the Washington University in St. Louis in 2011 and 2012, respectively. Before joining UWM in 2014, he was a postdoc research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Wang’s major research mission is to apply chemistry principles to develop innovative and sustainable solutions for water-related grand challenges. Some specific focuses include environmental applications of advanced materials, water supply and treatment, wastewater treatment and resource recovery, and environmental interfacial chemistry.