Professor Wang is a doctoral supervisor in the School of Chemical Engineering in Tianjin University. He received his M.S., B.S. and Ph. D. degrees from Tianjin University in 1987, 1990 and 1993, respectively. Now, he is the director of Tianjin Key Laboratory of Membrane Science and Desalination Technology. He is mainly working on membranes and membrane processes for seawater desalination and gas separation. Besides, he has been the secretary of Party Committee in the School of Chemical Engineering since 2011.

He presides more than 42 scientific research projects, including two Key Programs of National Natural Science Foundation of China and one Public Science and Technology Research Funds Project of Ocean. As the backbone, he participates in 7 projects such as "973 Plan" , "863 Plan" and "National key research and development Plan". By April 2020, he has published 211 papers in international journals such as Nature Materials Advanced Materials, Angew, EES and AIChE Journal. He participated in writing 5 books. He has also obtained 26 authorized invention patents as the first inventor in China. In his research area, he has made great breakthrough in the synthesis of membrane materials, designing of membrane structures with excellent performances. He has also built two pilot production lines for reverse osmosis membrane and gas separation membrane, and a demonstration apparatus for methane decarbonization with membrane.

He is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Membrane Science and Membrane Water Treatment, a member of National Separation Membrane Standardization Technical Committee and China Membrane Industry Association Expert Committee. He achieved the first rank Tianjin Natural Science Award 2004 and the first rank National Teaching Achievement Award 2009.

• Membranes and Membrane processes
• Desalination and Water treatment
• CO2 emission reduction and Gas separation

• First rank National Teaching Achievement Award 2009
• Being selected to be supported by Ministry of Education of China “Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University” 2005
• First rank Tianjin Natural Science Award 2004

• S. Li, Z. Wang, X. Yu, J. Wang, S. Wang, High-Performance Membranes with Multi-permselectivity for CO2 Separation, Advanced Materials, 24 (2012) 3196-3200.
• M. Wang, Z. Wang, S. Li, C. Zhang, J. Wang, S. Wang, A high performance antioxidative and acid resistant membrane prepared by interfacial polymerization for CO2 separation from flue gas, Energy & Environmental Science, 6 (2013) 539-551.
• Z. Qiao, S. Zhao, J. Wang, S. Wang, Z. Wang, M.D. Guiver, A Highly Permeable Aligned Montmorillonite Mixed-Matrix Membrane for CO2 Separation, Angew. Chem.-Int. Edit., 55 (2016) 9321-9325.
• Y. Wang, Z. Wang, J. Wang, Lab-scale and pilot-scale fabrication of amine-functional reverse osmosis membrane with improved chlorine resistance and antimicrobial property, Journal of Membrane Science, 554 (2018) 221-231.
• W.T. Yan, M.Q. Shi, Z. Wang, Y. Zhou, L.F. Liu, S. Zhao, Y.L. Ji, J.X. Wang, C.J. Gao, Amino-modified hollow mesoporous silica nanospheres-incorporated reverse osmosis membrane with high performance, Journal of Membrane Science, 581 (2019) 168-177.
• X.C. Cao, Z. Wang, Z.H. Qao, S. Zhao, J.X. Wang, Penetrated COF Channels: Amino Environment and Suitable Size for CO2 Preferential Adsorption and Transport in Mixed Matrix Membranes, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 11 (2019) 5306-5315.
• Z.H. Qiao, M.L. Sheng, J.X. Wang, S. Zhao, Z. Wang, Metal-Induced Polymer Framework Membrane with High Performance for CO2 Separation, Aiche J., 65 (2019) 239-249.
• Z.H. Qiao, S. Zhao, M.L. Sheng, J.X. Wang, S.C. Wang, Z. Wang, C.L. Zhong, M.D. Guiver, Metal-induced ordered microporous polymers for fabricating large-area gas separation membranes, Nature Materials, 18 (2019) 163-+.
• M.Q. Shi, W.T. Yan, Y. Zhou, Z. Wang, L.F. Liu, S. Zhao, Y.L. Ji, J.X. Wang, C.J. Gao, P. Zhang, X.Z. Cao, Combining tannic acid-modified support and a green co-solvent for high performance reverse osmosis membranes, Journal of Membrane Science, 595 (2020) 10.
• Y.Y. Liu, W.T. Yan, Z. Wang, H.H. Wang, S. Zhao, J.X. Wang, P. Zhang, X.Z. Cao, 1-methylimidazole as a novel additive for reverse osmosis membrane with high flux-rejection combinations and good stability, Journal of Membrane Science, 599 (2020) 10.