Chunlei (Peggy) Wang

Chunlei (Peggy) Wang is a Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department at Florida International University (FIU). She received her Ph.D. (1997) in Solid State Physics from Jilin University. Before joining FIU in 2006, she held various research positions at Osaka University (1995-2001) and University of California Irvine (2001-2006). At FIU, her group focuses on the development of micro and nanofabrication methods for synthesizing nanomaterials that have unique structures and useful properties and building novel micro/nanostructures for energy storage and biological/environmental sensing applications. She has published 11 book chapters, 131 peers reviewed journal papers and 46 proceedings, more than 300 conference presentations including invited talks, as well as 10 patents. Her research has been funded by various programs in National Science Foundation (including recent ERCs: ASSIST and PATHS-UP), American Chemical Society, and Department of Defense. She is a recipient of the FIU faculty award in research and creative activities (2013), FIU Kauffman Professor Award (2009), and DARPA Young Faculty Award (2008). She was also a co-founder of Carbon Microbattery Corporation (now: Enevate Corp), a consultant at Intel Lab, and a guest scientist at Max Planck Institute.