Congratulations to Prof. Wang Rong for receiving the Nanyang Research Award!​

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Professor Wang Rong is an expert in Membrane Science and Technology, with significant achievements in research, innovation and technology translation. In particular, she is an internationally renowned pioneer on novel osmosis membrane, aquaporin-based biomimetic membrane and low-pressure nanofiltration membrane for water, energy and environments.

She has won a substantial amount of competitive external research grants of S$23.898 million as Principal Investigator (PI) since joining NTU in 2008, with over S$15 million in the last 3 years. She has over 240 SCI journal publications (citation: > 10,000; H-index: 55@ Web of Science). Two NTU’s spin-off companies and two industry licensing resulted from her inventions.

She received a prestigious “Alternative Water Prize” from Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) of Saudi Arabia in 2016, and was featured among the top 25 leading water researchers globally by Lux Research in 2013. She also received Singapore Minister for National Development R&D Award 2013, indicating her important contribution to Singapore’s water security. Her international standing is also evident from her 8 plenary lectures and 12 keynote addresses at international conferences in the US, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific countries in the last 3 years. She is an Editor of the Journal of Membrane Science, and sits in the Editorial Board of Desalination. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the World Association of Membrane Societies.

In addition to her academic leadership role as Chair, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) since 2014, she has been leading the Singapore Membrane Technology Centre (SMTC) at the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute (NEWRI) for 10 Years. SMTC is internationally recognised and is one of the largest university-based membrane centres in the world.