Zhong Lin (Z.L.) Wang, Regents’ Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), has been elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the leading academic institution and comprehensive research and development center in natural science, technological science and high-tech innovation in China. A CAS academician title is the highest national academic achievement in science and technology and a lifelong honor. New members are added every two years, with a quota of no more than 60 for each election. A maximum of 6 foreign members are elected, each from 6 divisions (one each): physics and mathematics; earth science; bioscience; information science; technical science; chemistry.  Wang was chosen from the technical science division.

About Wang

A faculty member in COE since 1995, Wang is the youngest foreign member of the CAS. Among the approximately quarter million Chinese students sent overseas for study since 1980, Wang is the first person to be elected as a foreign member of CAS.  Wang joins 35 prominent scientists elected to CAS this year bringing the number of CASE academicians to 714. Wang’s research at Tech focuses on nanomaterials for biomedical applications, nanomaterials for MEMS and NEMS technology and integration of nanotechnology with biotechnology.

"We are thrilled that Dr. Wang's extraordinary work has been acknowledged by his membership in the CAS," said Don Giddens, dean of Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering. "This prestigious honor reflects his groundbreaking accomplishments in nanoscience and further enhances Georgia Tech's reputation as a worldwide hub for nanotechnology. Election as a foreign member of the CAS is reserved for only a select, and we are extremely pleased to have Z.L. as a member of our faculty."

The CAS was founded in Beijing on 1st November 1949 on the basis of the former Academia Sinica (Central Academy of Sciences) and Peiping Academy of Sciences.