Professor Wang Wenxiong is currently Associate Dean and Chair Professor in the School of Energy and Environment, and the Director of the Research Centre for Oceans and Human Health at City University of Hong Kong. He studied Marine Biology at Xiamen University, China, and received in 1995 a Doctor of Philosophy in Coastal Oceanography from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the United States.
Professor Wang’s research focuses on trace metal ecotoxicology and biogeochemistry in aquatic systems, and more recently, on nanotoxicology and marine fishery resource management. His research aims at a combination of fundamental and applied ecotoxicology that will contribute to the management and protection of marine environments.
Professor Wang was listed among the top 2% of the world's most highly cited scientists, according to metrics complied by Stanford University in 2020 and 2021. He has authored over 540 peer-reviewed publications on subjects related to the ecotoxicology of metals. He is the corresponding or first author of the majority of his publications. His laboratory has trained over 100 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars. He has served in numerous international journals as editor, associate editor, and editorial board member. His work is widely cited (over 25,000 times) with a current h-index of 83 (Google Scholar). He received the prestigious Overseas Distinguished Young Scientist Award from the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation in 2002, the Biwako Prize for Ecology in Japan in 2003, the Changjiang Chair Professorship in 2006, the First Prize in Natural Science from the Ministry of Education in China in 2009, the First Prize in Science and Technology from Guangdong Province in 2009, and the First Prize in the Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award in 2016. He is an Elected Fellow of both the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, and the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.