Dr. Jin An Wang is a tenured professor in Chemical Engineering at the Instituto Politécnico
Nacional in Mexico. He obtained his doctor degree in Chemical Engineering from the East
China University of Science and Technology in 1995. He worked as a visiting professor at
the Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México (1996-1998), Worcester Polytechnic
Institute in USA (2014-2015), and Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (2018) in Mexico.
Dr. Wang was elected as an academician of the Mexican Academy of Sciences in 2007. He
was awarded the title of Mexican National Researcher selected by the Consejo Nacional de
Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologias de México (CONHACyT-Mexico) in 1998.
Dr. Wang is coauthor of more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and
extended papers; he served as editor or guest editor of 3 books, 3 special issues in Catalysis
Today, and 1 special topic in Catalyst. He gave more than 120 presentations in the national
and international symposiums, conferences and congresses. He owns 12 patents and 25
certificates of author rights. Dr. Wang was the founder and co-chair of the First to Fifth
International Symposium on New Catalytic Materials, and co-chair of the Symposium of
Advanced Catalytic Materials in 2016 and 2017, and co-chair of the China-Mexico Scientific
Collaboration Conference in 2007. Dr. Wang serves as associate editor/guest editor/editor of
the several scientific journals such as Frontier in Chemistry, Catalysts, Catalysis Today, and
Advanced Materials Research.
Dr. Wang contributes to international collaboration between Mexico, China, the
United States, and Canada. It has established scientific collaboration with the East China
University of Science and Technology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the United States,
and the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.
In the Chemical Engineering community, Dr. Wang has been recognized for his
outstanding contribution to the innovation, investigation and technological development with
industrial importance in the last 30 years, particularly in the fields of petroleum processing,
environmental catalysis, clean energy and new catalytic materials. One of Dr. Wang’s
important investigations is the simultaneous production of hydrogen and carbon nanotubes
with natural gas as feedstock. He obtained several Mexican patents for his new findings and
innovative processes.
In the petroleum research field, Dr. Wang has focused on the synthesis of new
catalysts for hydroisomerization of C5, C6 and C7, propane oxidative dehydrogenation, n-
hexane dehydrogenation and cracking. He dedicated to the development of a novel oxidative
desulfurization technique that combines catalysis, oxidation and extraction of sulfur
compounds from petroleum oil by which the oxidation and separation of organosulfur can be
performed simultaneously in one operation system. This is a very practical and economical
technique to produce ultra-low sulfur fuel with a sulfur concentration less than 10 ppm.