Professor Tao Wang

Overview

He is a Professor and the IQE Chair in Semiconductors. Prior to joining his current institution, he served as Professor and Chair in Semiconductor Materials and Devices at the University of Sheffield since 2011, where he founded and directed the Centre for GaN Materials and Devices. His research breakthroughs have been widely featured in newspaper and magazines. 

To date, he has led or co-led 40 competitively funded research projects in the field of III-nitride materials and devices. He has > 550 publications included journal papers, book chapters, conference papers/presentations and patents. He has delivered ~60 planary/invited talks at international conferences. He has successfully supervised 31 PhD students to completion (26 as principal supervisor) and 22 postdoctoral research associates as a principal supervisor. One of his PhD students under his principal supervison was awarded “Year 2009 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Chinese Students Abroad”. 

He has established a strong track record of translating world-leading research into commercial innovation. So far, he has co-founded three university spin-out companies in the UK. His pioneering epitaxial technologies for achieving monolithic on-chip integration of III-nitride micro-LEDs were successfully transferred to the semiconductor industry in 2022, creating major scientific, technological, and economic impact. His pioneering research on the MOVPE growth of semi-polar and non-polar GaN on highly lattice-mismatched substrates was recognised with the 2015 Royal Society Emerging Technology Award.