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Assistant Professor
The University of Chicago
Sihong Wang is an Assistant Professor in Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, and will be promoted to Associate Professor, effective September 2025. He received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014, and his Bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University in 2009. From 2015 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. He has published over 80 papers in numerous high-impact journals, including Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Electronics, Nature Sustainability, Matter, Nature Communications, Science Advances, etc. His research group currently focuses on soft polymeric bioelectronic materials and devices as the new generation of technology for biomedical studies and therapeutics. As of March 2025, his research has been cited more than 29,300 times and he has an H-index of 68. He was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics from 2020 to 2024, and was awarded the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, NSF CAREER Award, Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 (TR35 Global List), Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator Award, ACS PMSE Early-Stage Investigator Award, Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2012 by Physics World, etc.
Expanding the Frontier: Opportunities and Challenges in Cranial and Peripheral Nerve Interfaces
Friday, June 13, 2025
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM ET