Wennie Wang

Wennie Wang is a materials scientist at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the winner of multiple awards including the 2025 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award from the American Physical Society.

From 2018 to 2021 Wang worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago under Giulia Galli.

In 2021 Wang started work as an assistant professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She also is affiliated with the Allen J. Bard Center for Electrochemistry, the Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials (a National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center), the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, and the Texas Materials Institute.

In 2025 Wang received the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award of the American Physical Society (APS) for outstanding research by a woman in physics in the early stages of her career. The award cited her "outstanding contributions to the field of materials science, including pioneering research on defective transition metal oxides for energy sustainability, a commitment to broadening participation of underrepresented groups in computational materials science, and leadership and advocacy in the scientific community."

Wang has also been involved in various roles outside her primary institution and has especially focused on the status of early career scientists. Because of her work in this and other areas, she has received the 2024 Reviewer Excellence Award for PRX Energy

Honors and awards

2025 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award, APS 2023 5 Sigma Physicist Honor, APS 2018 Ken Hass Outstanding Student Paper Award for Industrial Applications, Runner-up, APS 2017–2018 Excellence in Research Fellowship, Institute for Energy Efficiency 2017 Fall Graduate Student Award finalist, Silver Award, Materials Research Society 2014 Graduate Research Fellow, National Science Foundation 2013–2014 Holbrook Foundation Fellowship, Institute for Energy Efficiency