Dr. Yan Wang is currently a tenured Associate Professor at Guangdong Technion. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Monash University in 2018 and completed postdoctoral training
in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 2021.  In soft electronics field, she has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles, including more than 40 as first or corresponding author, in leading journals such as Science Advances (3 papers), Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Chemical Society Reviews, and Advanced Materials, with an h-index of 40 and 6 ESI Highly Cited Papers. And she is also an inventor on multiple patents filed in Australia, Japan, the United States, and China. Her work has earned several awards, including Stanford University & Elsevier Scopus TOP 2% Scientists (2021–2025), the Guangdong Province Major Talent Program (Youth), ACS Publications Award for Women Scientists in Surface and Interface Science (2025), the JMCC Emerging Investigators Award (2025), the Nanoscale Emerging Investigators Award (2023), and the 2018 Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad Award. Her research achievements have attracted international media attention, including coverage by CNN, Herald Sun (Australia), and Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (Japan). Her research interests include electronic skins, hydrogel bioelectronics, brain-machine interfaces, and diagnostics and therapeutics.

Group link: https://www.x-mol.com/groups/yanwanglab

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IUHWtQ0AAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-5224-0941

• nanomaterials
• hydrogels
• materials design
• nanofibers/wires
• flexible/interface design
• mechanical engineering
• smart textiles
• energy devices
• electronics skins
• biomedical sensors
• health monitoring
• human-machine interfaces

1. Zonglei Wang, Yuli Wang, Jiawei Yang, Pengcheng Zhou, Wenqing Yan, Shihong Lin, Yujie Zhang, Qingyuan Sun, Yumiao Xu, Zichong Ji, Mingzhe Wang, Zongman Zhang, Junhong Yi, Meiqiong Zheng, Xuezhong He, Lulu Sun, Sunghoon Lee, Tomoyuki Yokota, Hossam Haick, Takao Someya, Yan Wang*. Sub-400 nanometer-thick skin and environment adaptable organohydrogel nanofilm epidermal electrode.Nature Communications (IF 15.7, JCR Q1, 中科院1区) 2025, 16, 10103. 18 Nov. 2025
2. Yi Liu, Rawan Omar, Gang Li, Pengcheng Zhou, Yujie Zhang, Wenqing Yan, Hossam Haick*, Chuan Fei Guo*, Takao Someya*, Yan Wang*. Adaptable conductive hydrogel-enabled soft electronics. Progress in Materials Science (IF 40, JCR Q1, 中科院1区)2026, 157, 101590. 13 Oct. 2025
3. Yuli Wang, Zonglei Wang, Yujie Zhang,Jiawei Yang, Zongman Zhang, Pengcheng Zhou, Yumiao Xu, Qingyuan Sun, Meiqiong Zheng, Wenqing Yan, Xuezhong He, Jiongyu Chen, Juan Li, Youhua Jiang, Sunghoon Lee, Hossam Haick, Tomoyuki Yokota, Takao Someya, Yan Wang*. A 2.7-μm-thick robust, permeable, and antifreezing hydrogel electrode for long-term ambulatory health monitoring. Science Advances (IF 12.5, JCR Q1, 中科院1区) 2025, 11, eadt2286. 17 Sep. 2025
4. Qingyuan Sun, Yujie Zhang, Jiongyu Chen, Jiawei Yang, Yumiao Xu, Pengcheng Zhou, Shenglin Qin, Yuli Wang, Zonglei Wang, Jin Wu, Hossam Haick, Yan Wang*. Highly stretchable, moisture-permeable, on-skin electrodes from liquid metal and fiber mat. InfoMat (IF 3, JCR Q1, 中科院1区)2025, 7, e70045. 09 Jul. 2025
5. Pengcheng Zhou, Fan Mo, Zichong Ji, Jiawei Yang, Hongzhong Du, Zonglei Wang, Hossam Haick, Yan Wang*. Highly tough and responsible ionic liquid/polyvinyl alcohol–based hydrogels for stretchable electronics. Science Bulletin(IF 21.1, JCR Q1, 中科院1区) 2025, 70, 1410-1415. 09 May 2025
6. Meiqiong Zheng, Leqi Li, Xinyuan Ye, Zichong Ji, Yuli Wang, Zonglei Wang, Shihong Lin, Mingzhe Wang, Wenqing Yan, Jiawei Yang, Pengcheng Zhou, Yujie Zhang, Runzi Niu, Hossam Haick, Yan Wang*. Skin-printable, anti-freezing, and recyclable ionic hydrogel bioelectrode for continuous electrophysiological monitoring. Chemical Engineering Journal(IF 13.2, JCR Q1, 中科院1区) 2025, 512, 162451. 11 Apr. 2025
7. Leqi Li^#, Xinyuan Ye^#, Zichong Ji, Meiqiong Zheng, Shihong Lin, Mingzhe Wang, Jiawei Yang, Pengcheng Zhou, Zongman Zhang, Binghao Wang, Haoyang Wang,Yan Wang*. Paintable, fast gelation, highly adhesive hydrogels for high-fidelity electrophysiological monitoring wirelessly. Small (IF 12.1, JCR Q1, 中科院2区) 2024, 21, 2407996. 25 Oct. 2024
8. Zongman Zhang, Jiawei Yang, Haoyang Wang, Chunya Wang*, Yuheng Gu, Yumiao Xu, Sunghoon Lee, Tomoyuki Yokota, Hossam Haick, Takao Someya*, Yan Wang*. A 10-micrometer-thick nanomesh-reinforced gas-permeable hydrogel skin sensor for long-term electrophysiological monitoring. Science Advances(IF 12.5, JCR Q1, 中科院1区) 2024, 10, eadj5389. 10 Jan. 2024
9. Yan Wang, Sunghoon Lee, Haoyang Wang, Zhi Jiang, Yasutoshi Jimbo, Chunya Wang, Binghao Wang, Jae Joon Kim, Mari Koizumi, Tomoyuki Yokota, Takao Someya*. Robust, self-adhesive, reinforced polymeric nanofilms enabling gas-permeable dry electrodes for long-term application.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (IF 1, JCR Q1, 中科院1区) 2021, 118, e2111904118. 13 Sep. 2021
10. Yan Wang, Sunghoon Lee, Tomoyuki Yokota, Haoyang Wang, Zhi Jiang, Jiabin Wang, Mari Koizumi, Takao Someya*. A durable nanomesh on-skin strain gauge for natural skin motion monitoring with minimum mechanical constraints. Science Advances(IF 12.5, JCR Q1, 中科院1区) 2020, 6, eabb7043. 12 Aug. 2020