• Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics – 1998, Lanzhou University, China
• M.S. in Semiconductor Physics and Devices – 1993, Lanzhou University, China
• B.S. in Physics – 1987, Lanzhou University, China

Professional History

• 2019 to Present – Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, NMSU
• 2016 to 2019 – Director, Core University Research Resources Laboratory (CURRL), NMSU
• 2013 to 2019 – Research Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, NMSU
• 2006 to 2012 – Research Associate, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
• 2005 to 2006 – Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University
• 2003 to 2004 – Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh
• 2000 to 2002 – Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France
• 1998 to 2000 – Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
• 1987 to 1998 – Lecturer and Assistant Professor, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou, China

Research Interests

• Nanomaterials
• Photocatalysis
• Water treatment
• Advanced materials
• Desalination
• Thin films
• Energy materials
• Fuel cells
• Material characterizations

Chen, L., Xu, P., Wang, H. (2020). Interplay of the Factors Affecting Water Flux and Salt Rejection in Membrane Distillation: A State-of-the-Art Critical Review. Water, 12(10), 2841. 

Lin, L., Jiang, W., Chen, L., Xu, P., Wang, H. (2020). Treatment of Produced Water with Photocatalysis: Recent Advances, Affecting Factors and Future Research Prospects. Catalysts, 10(8), 924. 

Wang, H and Moore, J. J. (2012). Low temperature growth mechanism of vertical align carbon Nanofibers (CNFs) and Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) by radio frequency-plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, Carbon, 50(3),1235.  

Wang, H and Mao, S.M. (2006). Nanoindentation-induced Disappearance of a Room-temperature Coulomb Blockade in single-walled carbon nanotube, Small, 2, 59. 

Wang, H., Xu, P. and Wang, T. (2001). Doping of Nb2O5 in photocatalytic nanocrystalline/nanoporous WO3 films, Thin Solid Films, 388, 68.

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