Yuping Wang was born in Tianjin, China in 1990. He got his bachelor degree in Chemistry from Peking University in 2012, and then joined Prof. Fraser Stoddart’s research group at Northwestern University as a graduate student and obtained the PhD degree in Chemistry in 2017. He was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from September 2017 to August 2021. He started his independent research career in the Chemistry Department at Zhejiang University as a tenure-track professor in  September 2021.

He has an interdisciplinary research background including organic chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, nanoparticle chemistry and nanomaterials science. Till now, he has published eleven first-author papers in high level journals, including JACS (3), ACIE (1), ACS Cent Sci (2) and Chem (2), and holds one US patent. In 2017, he was awarded the “2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad”, one of the most prestigious awards from China for graduate students studying abroad. He was one of the eleven Next Generation Advisory Board Members of the journal Chem, which was launched in July 2016 by Cell Press, the publisher of the flagship life science journal Cell, and he is the topic editor of the journal Materials.