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Biography

Wang Zihao, male, Han nationality, is a native of Shanxi province. He was born in 1947, and graduated from the Dalian University of Technology. He obtained a doctorate in engineering from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and went on to become a professor there. In 1997 he became president of the Beijing University of Chemical Technology.

Professor Wang's research includes cover mass transfer and separation, science of interfaces, biochemical separation, membrane separation and liquid membrane processes. In the early eighties, he developed a set of new expressions for the prediction of the surface tension of liquid mixtures, which attracted international attention. He was awarded the Third Prize of Science and Technology Progress by the former Ministry of Chemical Industry. In the early nineties, he carried out systematic research on the quantitative relationships between surface and interfacial tensions in liquid mixtures and he was awarded the Third Prize of Science and Technology Progress by the former State Education Commission. Recently Professor Wang has completed several key projects under the Ninth Five Year Plan and a series of research projects in the field of biochemical engineering. He has published over seventy papers in well known international and national journals.

Wang was a member of the 9th and 10th NPC and a member of the Beijing committee of the 10th CPPCC.