Bio
Dr. Michael S. Wong is Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He holds the Tina and Sunit Patel Chair in Molecular Nanotechnology. Michael is the principal investigator of the Catalysis and Nanomaterials Laboratory, and Research Thrust Leader in the Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) Engineering Research Center. His clean-water/clean-energy research program has generated over 190 publications, with a cumulative citation count of >16K. He has an h-index of >65. He has received numerous honors over the years, including the MIT TR35 Young Innovator Award, the North American Catalysis Society/Southwest Catalysis Society Excellence in Applied Catalysis Award, and AIChE NSEF Young Investigator Award. Michael is the recipient of the 2023 Lawrence K. Cecil Award. He is a Fellow of AIChE, the American Chemical Society (ACS), and the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (https://www.ruf.rice.edu/~wonglab/ProfWong.html).