Dr Hong Wang

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Dr. Wang received her B.S. and M.S. in Inorganic Chemistry from Shandong University, China, and her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of California, Davis in 2003. She then completed postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford University and The Scripps Research Institute, concluding in 2007. That same year, she joined Miami University as an Assistant Professor, earning a promotion to tenured Associate Professor in 2013. In 2016, Dr. Wang joined the UNT faculty, where she was promoted to Full Professor in 2019 and named a University Distinguished Research Professor in 2026.

Research Area:

• Organic
• Materials

Research:

• Asymmetric Catalysis Through Cooperative Enamine-Metal Lewis Acid Catalysis
• Functional Organic Materials Based on p-Extended Porphyrins

The research in the Wang group mainly involves synthetic methodology development and the design and development of novel organic materials with interesting photophysical and optoelectronic or biological properties. The research principles are “using simple to make complicated” in the development of synthetic methodologies and “making complicated simple” in the design and development of organic materials.