Seminar

Abstract

With rapid economic development and sharp increase in consumption of fossil fuels, air pollution in China has become a major environmental issue, posing a huge challenge to the scientific community and governments. This talk first briefly reviews China's research and mitigation efforts and then presents key findings from research activities in my group in different areas of China, with the focus on processes affecting ground-level of ozone. Recent research on nitrous acid and nitryl chloride and their impact on secondary pollutants will be highlighted.

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WANG Tao is a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He received his BSc in Chemistry from Nankai University (Tianjin, China) in 1985, studied MSc in Environment Chemistry in Peking University for a year, and obtained PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1992. He then did postdoc research at the University of Michigan. He joined PolyU in 1995 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2001, Professor in 2005 and Chair Professor in 2013.

Professor Wang's research addresses atmospheric chemistry, air pollution-cloud interactions, and urban and regional air quality. He has conducted field and modelling studies in Hong Kong and many other regions of China. He has published over 100 papers in international journals with an H-Index of 42 (according to Web of Science). His current research focuses on heterogeneous chemistry of nitrogen compounds and contribution to ozone and haze.

Professor Wang serves on the Scientific Steering Committee of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project (IGAC), a vice chair of IGAC China Working Group, an Associate Editor for Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere and a Guest Editor for Atmospheric Chemistry Physics. He was Chief Scientist for a China’s National Basic Research Project on acid deposition during 2005-2010 and currently leads two large projects on heterogeneous processes of nitrogen compounds in southern and northern China.