Meng Wang

Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh

Meng Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. His research centers on applying state-of-the-art biotechnological tools, including synthetic biology, protein engineering, machine learning, and immobilization, to study and manipulate biological processes at the molecular level for applications in contaminant removal, carbon sequestration, and recovery and recycling of critical metals from wastes. Meng earned his B.S. in Environmental Science from Nanjing University and M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he also did two-year postdoctoral research. He received the MWH/AEESP Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award (Second Place) and was selected as a Scialog Fellow for Negative Emissions Science.