Dr. Yan Wang is currently a tenured Associate Professor at Guangdong Technion. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Monash University in 2018 and completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 2021.  In soft electronics field, she has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles, including more than 40 as first or corresponding author, in leading journals such as Science Advances (3 papers), Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Chemical Society Reviews, and Advanced Materials, with an h-index of 34 and five ESI Highly Cited Papers. And she is also an inventor on multiple patents filed in Australia, Japan, the United States, and China. Her work has earned several awards, including the Guangdong Province Major Talent Program (Youth), ACS Publications Award for Women Scientists in Surface and Interface Science (2025), the JMCC Emerging Investigators Award (2025), the Nanoscale Emerging Investigators Award (2022), and the 2018 Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad Award. Her research achievements have attracted international media attention, including coverage by CNN, Herald Sun (Australia), and Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (Japan). At Guangdong Technion, her group focuses on developing materials and implementing soft wearables in real-world applications for ambulatory health care and the Internet of Things.

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