Dan Wang graduated from Jilin University in 1994. He entered a master's degree program at his alma mater in the same year. He obtained his Ph.D. from Yamanashi University in Japan in 2001. He conducted his post-doctoral research at Kochi University, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth and Kyoto University, successively. He was awarded by Hundred Talent Program of the CAS, and served as professor of the Institute of Process Engineering, CAS in February 2004. And he earned the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2013; 2014 Young and Middle-aged Leading Scientists, Engineers and Innovators, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China; 2016 Young and Middle-aged Leading Scientists, Engineers and Innovators, "Ten thousand plan"-National high level talents special support plan; Highly Cited Researchers for 2018 in Chemistry.