Wang Hongfei
Wang Hongfei is a physical chemist and chemical physicist. Since 2017, he is a professor in the department of chemistry of Fudan University in Shanghai, China.
Biography
After three years of primary school education at the affiliated school of the No. 106 Geological Survey Unit of the Bureau of Geological Service of the Sichuan Province in 1975–1978, in the deep mountainous area in the Panzhihua City, Wang was admitted to the first class of the middle school of the then newly established No. 3 Bingcaogang Secondary/High School at Panzhihua City. Before the new semester started, he moved with his family to Chongqing County, about 25 miles west from Chengdu, the capitol of Sichuan Province, and there he attended the Chongqing Middle/High School in 1978–1983, before he attended the University of [Science and Technology of China] for bachelor's degree as well as studied for master's degree for almost three years. His master's degree advisor was Professor Xingxiao Ma, one of the last graduate students of Professor Qian Xuesen, who was the founder of the Department of Chemical Physics at the USTC in 1958. Then he received his Ph.D. in Department of Chemistry, Columbia University in 1996 under Professor Kenneth B. Eisenthal. His PhD dissertation titled: Second Harmonic Generation Studies of Chemistry at Liquid Interfaces. He did his postdoctoral research jointly at the DuPont Marshall laboratory & Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania from 1996 to 1999 with Professor Hai-lung Dai and Dr. An-gong Yeh. Then he joined the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a professor until 2009. Later on he continued his research as a Chief Scientist at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of United States Department of Energy. In 2017 he joined the Department of Chemistry, Fudan University.He is married to Wang Danhong, a well known scientific journalist and writer in China.